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rwd

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Registered: 2009-02-08

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[SOLVED] groups mising in repository

These commands give no output on my system, while I expected to see the members of group 'base' and 'base-devel'.

sudo pacman -Sg base;
sudo pacman -Sg base-devel;

To make sure it wasn't a local issue but that the group data was missing from the repository databae, I checked this with:

curl -sSL "https://mirror.rackspace.com/archlinux/core/os/$(uname -m)/core.db" -o /tmp/core.db
bsdtar -tf /tmp/core.db | grep -x 'groups'

This gave no output either. Shouldn't there be a 'groups' entry in core.cb for example?

Last edited by rwd (2025-09-08 14:55:01)

mpan

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Re: [SOLVED] groups mising in repository

Neither base nor base-devel are groups. They’re both packages.

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rwd

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Registered: 2009-02-08

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Re: [SOLVED] groups mising in repository

Thanks you're right! They were groups in the past I think. An old script of mine failed to find these groups, so that was what made me think they should exist.

Last edited by rwd (2025-09-08 15:02:12)