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Title: [SOLVED] pacman -Qm produces an error code
Post by: crinklywrappr on 07 July 2020, 07:45:16

I was attempting to run decpac generate (https://github.com/rendaw/decpac) as root when I discovered this.

$ pacman -Qm
$ echo $? # grab the exit status
1

Title: Re: pacman -Qm produces an error code
Post by: crinklywrappr on 07 July 2020, 20:07:14

I tried this on a new install and saw the same issue.

Title: Re: pacman -Qm produces an error code
Post by: nous on 07 July 2020, 22:42:23

Pacman -Q and -S operations return 1 when no results are found.

Title: Re: pacman -Qm produces an error code
Post by: crinklywrappr on 08 July 2020, 00:53:42

Thanks nous! I submitted an issue for the decpac maintainer here (https://github.com/rendaw/decpac/issues/7).

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