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Cbhihe

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[SOLVED] pacman database file for {core,extra,community} doesn't exist

Hello, I get the error message in subject line while doing:

$ sudo pacman -Fo any-package

I checked that I have {community,code,extra}.db in /var/lib/pacman/sync (du is 5.9M)
and {community,code,extra}.files in /var/cache/pkgfile/  (du is 220M)

Next I downloaded pkgfile with pacman and executed:

$ sudo pkgfile -u
::Updating 3 repos...
core is up to date
download complete: extra                      ....
download complete: extra                      ....
:: download complete in 24.41s               ....
:: waiting for 1 process to finish repacking repos...
$
$ sudo pkgfile git
extra/git

But all this did not affect the underlying issue causing the warning.

I went back 6 years in the archlinux forum to look for an answer, to no avail.
I am no closer to understand what the issue seems to be or how to fix this.
Any help welcome.

Last edited by Cbhihe (2017-10-08 19:43:42)

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jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman database file for {core,extra,community} doesn't exist

pacman -Fy

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Cbhihe

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman database file for {core,extra,community} doesn't exist

That synchronizes the 3 DBs nicely and leaves `$ sudo pacman -Fo any-package` with no answer and no error message. just nothing. (???) Am I missing something very basic ?

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loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman database file for {core,extra,community} doesn't exist

$ pacman -Fo any-package

So no package owns the file or directory /any-package

Cbhihe

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman database file for {core,extra,community} doesn't exist

@loqs: actually you just gave me the answer. Thank you.

I should write

$ pacman -Fo /fully/qualified/path/name

instead of :

$ pacman -Fo name      # interpreted as /name

All the same I find it interesting that  'pkgfile' and 'pacman' give different results: advantage 'pkgfile' apparently:

$ pacman -Fo /usr/bin/netstat
usr/bin/netstat is owned by core/net-tools 1.60.20160...git-1
$ pkgfile netstat
core/net-tools
extra/munin-node

The second group is not shown by 'pacman'.

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loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman database file for {core,extra,community} doesn't exist

$ pacman -Fs netstat
core/net-tools 1.60.20160710git-1
    usr/bin/netstat
extra/munin-node 2.0.26-4
    usr/lib/munin/plugins/netstat

Cbhihe

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman database file for {core,extra,community} doesn't exist

@loqs: Aha ! Thank you, one more time.

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fsckd

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman database file for {core,extra,community} doesn't exist

For further reading about -F and its options. please see the ArchWiki and pacmans' man page.

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eschwartz

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman database file for {core,extra,community} doesn't exist

Yes, pkgfile and pacman -F are completely different utilities and have completely different usage, compare the difference between `pkgfile -h` and `pacman -Fh`.

That being said, pkgfile as a standalone tool is IMHO a lot better than the more recent `pacman -F` implementation. It is both more powerful and faster.

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