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-rw-r--r--guix/scripts/package.scm10
-rw-r--r--tests/guix-package.sh4
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/guix/scripts/package.scm b/guix/scripts/package.scm
index 500fc9ac90..5743816324 100644
--- a/guix/scripts/package.scm
+++ b/guix/scripts/package.scm
@@ -771,9 +771,13 @@ processed, #f otherwise."
(('show requested-name)
(let-values (((name version)
(package-name->name+version requested-name)))
- (leave-on-EPIPE
- (for-each (cute package->recutils <> (current-output-port))
- (find-packages-by-name name version)))
+ (match (find-packages-by-name name version)
+ (()
+ (leave (G_ "~a~@[@~a~]: package not found~%") name version))
+ (packages
+ (leave-on-EPIPE
+ (for-each (cute package->recutils <> (current-output-port))
+ packages))))
#t))
(('search-paths kind)
diff --git a/tests/guix-package.sh b/tests/guix-package.sh
index f7dfbfad00..7eeb4304d1 100644
--- a/tests/guix-package.sh
+++ b/tests/guix-package.sh
@@ -106,6 +106,10 @@ guix package --show=guile | grep "^name: guile"
# Ensure `--show' doesn't fail for packages with non-package inputs.
guix package --show=texlive
+# Fail for non-existent packages or package/version pairs.
+if guix package --show=does-not-exist; then false; else true; fi
+if guix package --show=emacs@42; then false; else true; fi
+
# Search.
LC_MESSAGES=C
export LC_MESSAGES