diff --git a/checkpkg b/checkpkg
index e669718c540717a70b7ba678376f3a00923d0307..01c921ec3e7ec75518d303d0eabed957856881ef 100755
--- a/checkpkg
+++ b/checkpkg
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ for _pkgname in ${pkgname[@]}; do
 		exit 1
 	fi
 
-	tmp=`pacman -Spd --noconfirm $_pkgname`
+	tmp=`pacman -Spdd --noconfirm $_pkgname`
 
 	if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
 		echo "Couldn't download previous package for $_pkgname."
diff --git a/mkarchroot b/mkarchroot
index f385731509eaeaac5f2b671714811af9be64f392..5b6be880609d0d685a218f11d018cd91e6346326 100755
--- a/mkarchroot
+++ b/mkarchroot
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ if [ -z "$cache_dir" ]; then
 fi
 
 if [ -f /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist ]; then
-	host_mirror=$(pacman -Sdp extra/devtools 2>/dev/null | sed -E 's#(.*/)extra/os/.*#\1$repo/os/$arch#')
+	host_mirror=$(pacman -Sddp extra/devtools 2>/dev/null | sed -E 's#(.*/)extra/os/.*#\1$repo/os/$arch#')
 fi
 if [ -z "${host_mirror}" ]; then
 	host_mirror='http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch'