[pacman-dev] [PATCH v2] libalpm: process needed before group selection

[Morgan Adamiec]

On Thu, 18 Oct 2018 at 01:34, Andrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I wasn't concerned about the misleading message for this patch, but
> the failing test is another thing.  If you're not testing your patches
> with `make check`, please do.  We could update the test, but let's
> just go ahead and fix the "error" after all.  I recommend, in
> a separate patch, adding a group_exists function and using that to
> distinguish between a non-existent group and a group with no packages
> selected after find_group_packages returns NULL.

I did say the patch set was incomplete ;)
group_exists does seem like the best idea though so will do. Would you
prefer that function be added to the backend or frontend?