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-rw-r--r--lib/spack/spack/repo.py2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/repo.py b/lib/spack/spack/repo.py
index 11a4e14416..814f84049a 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/repo.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/repo.py
@@ -1478,6 +1478,8 @@ class UnknownPackageError(UnknownEntityError):
if name.endswith(".yaml"):
long_msg = "Did you mean to specify a filename with './{0}'?"
long_msg = long_msg.format(name)
+ else:
+ long_msg = "You may need to run 'spack clean -m'."
else:
msg = "Attempting to retrieve anonymous package."