LinuxQuestions.org - [SOLVED] pmm --names-only for pacman mistake package for repository

something gone squint with pmm and artix?

Code:

"pmm search -n st"

# (and --names-only)

ends on:

Code:

"error: repository "st" was not found."

for artix.

fetching an arch to test
~
yup, same output mistaking the package for a repository.

looking in
https://github.com/bedrocklinux/bedr...anagers/pacman
i see

Code:

user_interfaces["pacman", "search-for-package-by-name"] = ""

and wonder if that

Code:

""

should contain something. ... but what? my pacman-fu no good.

~~~ maybe i should have left it there. ~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

testing the

Code:

implementations["pacman", "search-for-package-by-name"]  = "strat -r ${stratum} pacman -Sl ${items} | cut -d' ' -f2 | grep ${items}"

Code:

strat -r aurtix pacman -Sl st | cut -d' ' -f2 | grep st

gives the same

Code:

error: repository "st" was not found.

so maybe it's the

Code:

-Sl

at fault.

(my pacman-fu still no good, but...a stab in the dark...) i tried

Code:

strat -r aurtix pacman -Ql st | cut -d' ' -f2 | grep st

and it at least said package instead of repository:

Code:

error: package 'st' was not found

(my pacman-fu still no good, but...a stab in the dark...) i've also tried

Code:

strat -r aurtix pacman -Ss st | cut -d' ' -f2 | grep st

which did at least return 5 results for "post1"... leaving me wondering if the Ql was right... ... and a little more poking at

Code:

man pacman

and i wonder if...

Code:

strat -r aurtix pacman -Qs st | cut -d' ' -f2 | grep st

might be the ticket, returning nothing.... i should get a better package to test this with than st (just happened to be what i was looking for when getting into testing this).

Code:

strat -r aurtix pacman -Qs xz

gives

Code:

local/xz 5.2.5-1

    Library and command line tools for XZ and LZMA compressed files

and so

Code:

strat -r aurtix pacman -Qs xz | cut -d' ' -f2 | grep xz

gives... nothing. oh. [edit: (my cut-fu no good too?)]

well, i'm headspun stumped. time for a break from trying fathom this, and restore cognitive capacity with some R&R. :) gimmie a day, n i'll get this yet. :)
[edit: notions of regex and sed swirling around my mind]
[edit: strat -r aurtix pacman -Ss xz's output looks more right ~ ok ok, now i go r&r and get breakfast]