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 100%
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
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Monday, 03 August 2020, 00:41 GMT
There is no base group in Arch Linux
Comment by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Monday, 03 August 2020, 01:46 GMT
Seems like you missed the memo, @thermi

https://www.archlinux.org/news/base-group-replaced-by-mandatory-base-package-manual-intervention-required/

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