It's useful to distinguish the failure to find updates. This carries
over the ability for pacman -Qu to return errors when no upgrades are
available.
At the same time, this should (unlike pacman -Qu) use its own unique
return code, since checkupdates may error for a couple of reasons
including download issues.
Fixes FS#64219
Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz
---
doc/checkupdates.8.txt | 14 ++++++++++++++
src/checkupdates.sh.in | 2 +-
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/doc/checkupdates.8.txt b/doc/checkupdates.8.txt
index ff10930..b1a94d8 100644
--- a/doc/checkupdates.8.txt
+++ b/doc/checkupdates.8.txt
@@ -39,6 +39,20 @@ Environment
Overrides the default '/tmp' temporary directory.
+Errors
+------
+On exit, checkpkg will return one of the following error codes.
+
+0::
+ Normal exit condition.
+
+1::
+ Unknown cause of failure.
+
+2::
+ No updates are available.
+
+
See Also
--------
linkman:pacman[8], linkman:pacman.conf[5]
diff --git a/src/checkupdates.sh.in b/src/checkupdates.sh.in
index eecb4a7..52f8899 100644
--- a/src/checkupdates.sh.in
+++ b/src/checkupdates.sh.in
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ if (( ${#updates[@]} )); then
sudo pacman -Sw --noconfirm "${updates[@]%% *}" --dbpath "$CHECKUPDATES_DB" --logfile /dev/null
fi
else
- exit 1
+ exit 2
fi
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