--- This is basically my V2 for "pacman: better handle -F when file is not found".
With the freeze coming up and me not having that much time to do pacman stuff, this is the best I've got right now. I have been thinking about the original patch and I don't really like it much any more. One issue is that -Qi and -Si give error messages when there's no match, but -Qs and -Ss do not. So for consistency sake should -Fx not give an error message? Also -Qs and -Ss both fail to report when an error occurs during search. So just like how -F currently does not report regex errors, neither does -Q and -S. Lastly there is the issue of how to handle regex errors in -F? Because the search is done in the front end, the error does not come from alpm. We could just do `alpm_strerror(ALPM_ERR_REGEX)` to reuse alpm's error message. Or maybe move it into the backend along side alpm_db_search? I'll leave all this open to discussion and hope this small patch is mostly agreeable so it can make it in this release. --- src/pacman/files.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/pacman/files.c b/src/pacman/files.c index 8e518486..af11666d 100644 --- a/src/pacman/files.c +++ b/src/pacman/files.c @@ -176,11 +176,11 @@ static int files_search(alpm_list_t *syncs, alpm_list_t *targets, int regex) { notfound: if(!found) { - ret++; + ret = 1; } } - return 0; + return ret; } static void dump_file_list(alpm_pkg_t *pkg) { -- 2.23.0