Yes, it would work as a one-off workaround, but still leaves the underlying inconsistency. pkg_remove reports errors very nicely if you pass invalid package names as a parameter and this behaviour "makes sense".
Regards, Mart On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 10:32 PM, Anthony J. Bentley <anth...@anjbe.name> wrote: > Mart Tõnso writes: >> Hello Bugs, >> >> Stumbled upon this: >> >> # pkg_add nonexistantpackage || echo false && echo true >> Can't find nonexistantpackage >> true >> >> This makes it impossible to detect in an external script/program that >> package installation failed when an invalid package name was passed to >> pkg_add. I think it would make sense to return an error code in this >> case? > > Try pkg_add followed by "pkg_info inst:pkgname"?
