FS#57680 - [pacman] Output of altered files (pacman -Qkk) is wrong

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Markus Schanz (superhansel) - Wednesday, 28 February 2018, 21:04 GMT
Last edited by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Thursday, 01 March 2018, 15:16 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category General
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 5.0.1
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I just checked for a way to find modified package files and was pleased to find the -Qkk option of pacman. However, although the output lists the modified files correctly, the summary line does wrongly claim that zero files have been modified.

For instance:
```
$ pacman -Qkk pacman-mirrorlist
backup file: pacman-mirrorlist: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist (Modification time mismatch)
backup file: pacman-mirrorlist: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist (Size mismatch)
pacman-mirrorlist: 3 total files, 0 altered files
```

Pacman version is 5.0.2-2
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Closed by  Eli Schwartz (eschwartz)
Thursday, 01 March 2018, 15:16 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Wednesday, 28 February 2018, 21:27 GMT
Said modified files are backup files. We expect those to be modified, and thus they're not counted in the summary. You can suppress the output of those backup files and get a more concise summary by adding -q.
Comment by Markus Schanz (superhansel) - Thursday, 01 March 2018, 11:23 GMT
I see. Thank you for the explaination. The distinction of package files and backup files was new to me. Guess my bug report is invalid then.

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