On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 5:12 AM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/12/11 20:10, Allan McRae wrote: >> On a removal operation, pacman currently reports an error for the >> package that is not found in the database and then exists. Adjust >> so that all unknown packages are reported. >> >> Before: >>> pacman -R foo bar >> error: 'foo': target not found >> >> After: >>> pacman -R foo bar >> error: 'foo': target not found >> error: 'bar': target not found >> >> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <[email protected]> >> --- > > > BTW, I would like something similar for -S operations too: > > # pacman -S foo bar > error: target not found: foo > > However, I can not see how to do that (without passing some value around > to lots of functions) while avoiding the potential group selection > dialog if we did something like: > > # pacman -S foo base bar > > Any pointers would be appreciated.
-U would be nice too; might be similar to your -S case mentioned above. $ sudo ./src/pacman/pacman -U foo bar baz Password: loading packages... error: 'foo': could not find or read package I'll take a quick look at this to see what I can come up with. -Dan
