From: Alice BRENON <alice.brenon@ens-lyon.fr>
To: Sarah Morgensen <iskarian@mgsn.dev>
Cc: 49827@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#49827: Error message for missing synopsis in opam importer
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 15:15:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210811151520.61c85eaa@ens-lyon.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86r1fb4pez.fsf@mgsn.dev>
Hello,
Thanks for your answer Sarah. Simon, I don't know if you have been able
to make any progress but I wanted to make sure you had seen the patch
proposal I sent to let the opam importer work from more repositories
than the few initially defined (opam's official and three for coq):
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=49958
Though I had a local "bypass" on the metadata reader to be able to
perform the import I wanted and orginally designed my patch for, I paid
attention not to commit it to keep matters separated. Any insight on the
general form the improved error handling will take ? Please let me
know if I can update my #49958 patch to play along more nicely with
your rework.
Alice
Le Mon, 02 Aug 2021 12:28:20 -0700,
Sarah Morgensen <iskarian@mgsn.dev> a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the report. I'm CC'ing Simon since they have been working
> on improved error handling/reporting for the importers.
>
> Alice BRENON <alice.brenon@ens-lyon.fr> writes:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I triggered a confusing behaviour from the opam importer trying to
> > import package iter 1.2.1 today on a Guix System install.
> >
> > The package iter is missing a "synopsis" field as can be seen on
> > https://opam.ocaml.org/packages/iter/ , which when I tried
> >
> > guix import opam iter
> >
> > yielded the following backtrace:
> >
> > Backtrace:
> > 8 (primitive-load
> > "/home/alice/.config/guix/current/bin/g…") In guix/ui.scm:
> > 2185:7 7 (run-guix . _)
> > 2148:10 6 (run-guix-command _ . _)
> > In guix/scripts/import.scm:
> > 120:11 5 (guix-import . _)
> > In guix/scripts/import/opam.scm:
> > 104:23 4 (guix-import-opam . _)
> > In guix/utils.scm:
> > 752:8 3 (call-with-temporary-output-file _)
> > In guix/import/opam.scm:
> > 337:34 2 (_ _ _)
> > In srfi/srfi-1.scm:
> > 460:18 1 (fold #<procedure 7f3baca56fe0 at
> > guix/import/opam.scm…> …) In guix/import/opam.scm:
> > 193:15 0 (_ _ _)
> >
> > guix/import/opam.scm:193:15: Throw to key `match-error' with args
> > `("match" "no matching pattern" string-pat)'.
> >
> >
> > the final error is raised l.193 of guix/import/opam.scm because
> > metadata-ref supports various types for a metadata field, but not
> > the lack of it. As discussed with Maxime Devos on the IRC channel,
> > it would be helpful to either allow the import of a package with a
> > missing field (possibly filling it in the output scheme code for
> > the imported package with some bad value requiring the user to fill
> > it and causing any build to crash until replaced properly) or at
> > least to handle that missing field with a more explicit error
> > message than the above backtrace (something like "Can't import that
> > package because it's missing such or such field").
>
> IMO, a warning should be emitted, but the package should be buildable
> if at all possible; it's the submitter's responsibility to vet
> imported packages.
>
> Simon, how's that error handling rework coming? ;)
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Alice BRENON
>
> --
> Sarah
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-11 13:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-02 15:01 bug#49827: Error message for missing synopsis in opam importer Alice BRENON
2021-08-02 19:28 ` Sarah Morgensen
2021-08-11 13:15 ` Alice BRENON [this message]
2021-08-17 7:43 ` zimoun
2021-08-19 14:58 ` Alice BRENON
2021-11-21 23:22 ` Julien Lepiller
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