[pacman-dev] "pacman --arch=i686 -Syu" results in "error: GPGME error: No data"

[Allan McRae]

On 3/6/21 7:39 pm, stratus--- via pacman-dev wrote:
> $ sudo pacman --arch=i686 -Syu
> :: Synchronising package databases...
> system is up to date
> world is up to date

<sinp>

So nothing to do with --arch=i686.

You could replicate by "rm /var/lib/pacman/sync/* && pacman -Sy"

The issue is pacman seeing a database should have a signature.  So it
tries to validate a missing database, giving that error.

Allan