On a clean Arch installation pacmatic never produces /var/log/arch-news.log. It fails to download and parse the news because the location moved permanently and curl command is missing the flag -L to follow redirects.
➜ ~ curl -sD - https://www.archlinux.org/feeds/news/ -o /dev/null
HTTP/2 301
server: nginx
date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 19:07:04 GMT
content-type: text/html
content-length: 162
location: https://archlinux.org/feeds/news/
strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload
On a clean Arch installation pacmatic never produces
/var/log/arch-news.log. It fails to download and parse the news because the location moved permanently andcurlcommand is missing the flag-Lto follow redirects.