From: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: 65740@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#65740: No fallback to SWH for .guix-channel dependencies
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2023 19:09:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875y4pq2zw.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
Hi,
Consider this channels.scm file:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ cat /tmp/channels.scm
(list (channel
(name 'guix)
(url "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git")
(branch "master")
(commit
"710d9050524213a83e4ce9efe9765d7fbc233839"))
(channel
(name 'bimsb)
(url "https://github.com/BIMSBbioinfo/guix-bimsb.git")
(branch "master")
(commit
"240a599f77dab7dcb8d2ed091b90056e58a46c51")))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Then, assume Github is down forever. Guix will lookup to Software
Heritage (SWH) for the channel bimsb. So far, so good. However, then
it fails:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ guix time-machine -C /tmp/channels.scm -- describe
Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'...
Updating channel 'bimsb' from Git repository at 'https://github.com/BIMSBbioinfo/guix-bimsb.git'...
/tmp/channels.scm:95:6: warning: channel 'bimsb' lacks 'introduction' field but '.guix-authorizations' found
Updating channel 'guix-past' from Git repository at 'https://gitlab.inria.fr/guix-hpc/guix-past'...
guix time-machine: error: Git error: failed to resolve address for gitlab.inria.fr: Name or service not known
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
The main reason is because the channel bimsb contains the file
.guix-channel which reads,
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(channel
(version 0)
(dependencies
(channel
(name guix-past)
(url "https://gitlab.inria.fr/guix-hpc/guix-past"))
(channel
(name guix-science)
(url "https://github.com/guix-science/guix-science.git"))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
And Guix is not able to fallback to SWH for these channels.
Corollary, even if it was able, what is the correct revision of
the guix-past or guix-science channels?
This report is about two bugs:
1. transparent fallback to SWH for .guix-channel dependencies
2. pin all channels when running “guix describe”, even the ones from
.guix-channel dependencies.
This #2 is annoying because it makes the workflow:
guix time-machine -C channels.scm -- shell -m manifest.scm
unpractical when user relies on channels with dependencies.
Cheers,
simon
next reply other threads:[~2023-09-04 17:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-04 17:09 Simon Tournier [this message]
2023-09-08 20:40 ` bug#65740: No fallback to SWH for .guix-channel dependencies Ludovic Courtès
2023-09-09 10:04 ` Simon Tournier
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