FS#67469 : [pacman] -Sg fails to show group members

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FS#67469 - [pacman] -Sg fails to show group members

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Noel Kuntze (thermi) - Monday, 03 August 2020, 00:36 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Monday, 03 August 2020, 00:41 GMT

Task Type	Bug Report
Category	General
Status	Closed
Assigned To	No-one
Architecture	All
Severity	Low
Priority	Normal
Reported Version	5.2.1
Due in Version	Undecided
Due Date	Undecided
Percent Complete
Votes	0
Private	No

Details

Summary and Info:

My box lost its package indexes and thus all installed packages. I had to recover them following the wiki, which worked. pacman -Sg base doesn't show any members of the base group though. It in fact returns return code 1:

$ pacman -Sg base; echo $?
1

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Closed by Allan McRae (Allan)
Monday, 03 August 2020, 00:41 GMT
Reason for closing: Not a bug