Pacman reports missing files

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Hey out there,
on my way to fix my wifi issues I came accross an output of pacman that reports I have missing files. I am wondering if this is concerning or to be expected? And if it is concerning how would I repair these packages? I tried to reinstall one of the packages mentioned below, but it does not seem like it would bring back the missing files.

> pacman -Qk 2>/dev/null | grep -v ' 0 missing files'
                                                                                                                                                   
audit: 208 total files, 4 missing files
bind: 339 total files, 3 missing files
fwupd: 2888 total files, 1 missing file
manjaro-firmware: 260 total files, 133 missing files
manjaro-hotfixes: 7 total files, 1 missing file
manjaro-zsh-config: 91 total files, 1 missing file
nfs-utils: 124 total files, 3 missing files
packagekit: 288 total files, 1 missing file
polkit: 217 total files, 1 missing file
systemd: 1330 total files, 1 missing file
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The “missing” files need root permissions to be examined. E.g.

$ pacman -Qkk manjaro-hotfixes
warning: manjaro-hotfixes: /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/99-manjaro.rules (Permission denied)
manjaro-hotfixes: 7 total files, 1 altered file

$ sudo pacman -Qkk manjaro-hotfixes
manjaro-hotfixes: 7 total files, 0 altered files

$ sudo pacman -Qk 2>/dev/null | grep -v ' 0 missing files'
$
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On another note: this package doesn’t exist (anymore?) in the repos

Who knows what (old) firmware blobs it contains and what impact those might have regarding the mentioned wifi issues.

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ohh yeah my bad I guess.
With root permissions I also have no more missing files anymore
→ thanks!

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would you recommend to try to delete it? (with a backup beforehand^^)

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Sure, it’s not in the repos nor in the AUR. That means it’s not supported or even maintained in any way.

Keeping a copy of it in/from your package cache might suffice (default location is /var/cache/pacman/pkg).
You could reinstall it again if you deem it necessary although unmaintained old packages should always be removed in my opinion.

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thanks for the helpful notes!
Everything went fine and I learned stuff;). Unfortunately the wifi issues remain - will probably open a new post for it.

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