Is pacman really updating?

Question

Hey everyone, I recently installed Archlinux on my laptop and liking it so far
As I feel like i'm just being a bit stupid, I didn't post this in the pacman topic but in the newbie corner.
I want to check out the new openoffice 2.4 (I'm currently using the 2.3 version), I tried doing a full system upgrade using
sudo pacman -Syu
This outputs that everything is up to date (and a load of packages that are actually newer than core version, I'm not sure how that happened)
I thought that perhaps the package wasn't yet in archlinux' repositories. But if I check out http://www.archlinux.org/packages/searc … e&limit=50 I see that the it's at version 2.4
Doing sudo pacman -S openoffice-base outputs
[root@nandtop nand]# pacman -S openoffice-base
warning: openoffice-base-2.3.1-2 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
Targets: openoffice-base-2.3.1-2
Total Download Size: 0.00 MB
Total Installed Size: 103.98 MB
Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
As you see, it seems like my system didn't synchronize it's repositories.
Here's my pacman.conf:
# /etc/pacman.conf
# See the pacman manpage for option directives
# GENERAL OPTIONS
[options]
# The following paths are commented out with their default values listed.
# If you wish to use different paths, uncomment and update the paths.
#RootDir = /
#DBPath = /var/lib/pacman/
#CacheDir = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
#LogFile = /var/log/pacman.log
HoldPkg = pacman glibc
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u
# REPOSITORIES
# - can be defined here or included from another file
# - pacman will search repositories in the order defined here
# - local/custom mirrors can be added here or in separate files
# - repositories listed first will take precedence when packages
# have identical names, regardless of version number
# Repository entries are of the format:
# [repo-name]
# Server = ServerName
# Include = IncludePath
# The header [repo-name] is crucial - it must be present and
# uncommented to enable the repo.
# Testing is disabled by default. To enable, uncomment the following
# two lines. You can add preferred servers immediately after the header,
# and they will be used before the default mirrors.
#[testing]
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[core]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[extra]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[community]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
# Unstable is disabled by default. To enable, uncomment the following
# two lines. You can add preferred servers immediately after the header,
# and they will be used before the default mirrors.
[unstable]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
# An example of a custom package repository. See the pacman manpage for
# tips on creating your own repositories.
#[custom]
#Server = file:///home/custompkgs
[archlinuxfr]
Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/i686
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Thanks, I changed my mirror to yours and now it's updating.
I was using mirrors from The Netherlands whom seem to be out of date.