On 22/06/15 10:38, [email protected] wrote: > When attempting to install a package via pacman, I received a few warnings > like: > > warning: database file for 'community' does not exist > > After looking through the man page, it wasn’t apparent what this meant. > After googling, it appears this means I need to run: pacman -Syy. The man > page says that -y updates the “master package list” from the server, so I’m > guessing “database file” is a synonym for “package list”. > > Could the wording be brought in sync, such that one can understand the error > in terms of the man file? As in, either change the warning to say something > like “warning: package list for ‘community’ has not been downloaded”, or > update the man file to use the “database file” terminology.
It seems the only place we do not refer to this file as a database is in the -y description, so we should make this consistent. Allan
