Fakepkg couldn't find any package
renyuneyun opened this issue · comments
Hi,
I suddendly discovered bacman was removed for a long time and fakepkg is encouraged as an alternative.
However, after installing the package from AUR, typing fakepkg WHATEVER-PACKAGE-NAME does not work: it always tells me
The following package(s) could not be found on your system: "WHATEVER-PACKAGE-NAME"
Keep in mind that the package(s) have to be installed!
Are there any hidden steps?
It works just fine for me in a clean chroot. There are no hidden steps necessary to setup fakepkg.
Can you try to reproduce the error in a clean chroot?
It also works fine in my clean chroot...
And I also figured out what made it not working on my system: my LC_ALL is set to zh_CN.UTF-8 while in the chroot it's set to C.
I then tested en_GB.UTF-8 and en_US.UTF-8, both not working.
ah, thanks a lot for that! Apparently, exporting LANG=c is not sufficient. Can you try the same with the following patch applied?
--- a/fakepkg
+++ b/fakepkg
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
set -Eeuo pipefail
export LANG=C
+export LC_ALL=C
declare -r myname='fakepkg'
declare -r myver='1.40.2'Although, to be honest, I don't really get why this should be necessary. The initialization of bash and all the profile configuration stuff should not happen in a script.
Are you sure that you are not doing something something odd in your bashrc like e.g. having deleted this snippet
# If not running interactively, don't do anything
[[ $- != *i* ]] && return?
Yes the patch works.
I have that line in my ~/.bashrc. It was after the exports, but switching the order doesn't solve the problem. (The exports don't include LC_ALL though.)
Right, my LC_ALL is set in .xprofile.
If I login through tty, the problem doesn't appear.
I think one is not supposed to use the variable in the way you did. According to ArchWiki:Locale#LC_ALL it shall only be used for debugging and testing as it will overwrite any other variables. I think what you really want is to overwrite LANG. Although I might change my mind on that at some point, I currently believe it is right for fakepkg to fail and not ignore LC_ALL.
I changed my mind 😄 and added the feature in f986e66.