Currently when attempting to sync a group where all packages are ignored, either by ignorepkg, ignoregroup or --needed, pacman will error with "target not found". Instead, if a group has no packages check if the group exists before throwing an error. Signed-off-by: morganamilo <morganamilo@gmail.com> --- v2: Move to frontend + fix formatting. diff --git a/src/pacman/sync.c b/src/pacman/sync.c index ef8faedf..57e92266 100644 --- a/src/pacman/sync.c +++ b/src/pacman/sync.c @@ -535,6 +535,20 @@ static int process_pkg(alpm_pkg_t *pkg) return 0; } +static int alpm_group_exists(alpm_list_t *dbs, const char *name) +{ + alpm_list_t *i; + for(i = dbs; i; i = i->next) { + alpm_db_t *db = i->data; + + if(alpm_db_get_group(db, name)) { + return 1; + } + } + + return 0; +} + static int process_group(alpm_list_t *dbs, const char *group, int error) { int ret = 0; @@ -543,6 +557,10 @@ static int process_group(alpm_list_t *dbs, const char *group, int error) int count = alpm_list_count(pkgs); if(!count) { + if(alpm_group_exists(dbs, group)) { + return 0; + } + pm_printf(ALPM_LOG_ERROR, _("target not found: %s\n"), group); return 1; } -- 2.19.1