Fragment starting line 576 in repo-add/remove, pacman 5.0.0-1 case $cmd in repo-remove) # only a missing "db" database is currently an error # TODO: remove if statement if [[ $repo == "db" ]]; then error "$(gettext "Repository file '%s' was not found.")" "$dbfile" fi exit 1 ;; I believe you mean for the “exit 1” to be inside the “then” section, not outside. When invoking “repo-remove”, this produced exit 1, no error message, and no visible action. Turns out it works as expected if I comment out exit 1. Cheers, Johannes. Johannes Ernst upon2020.com @Johannes_Ernst GPG: http://upon2020.com/public/pubkey.txt Check out UBOS, the Linux distro for personal servers I work on: http://ubos.net/