* bug#65740: No fallback to SWH for .guix-channel dependencies
@ 2023-09-04 17:09 Simon Tournier
2023-09-08 20:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Simon Tournier @ 2023-09-04 17:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 65740
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
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* bug#65740: No fallback to SWH for .guix-channel dependencies
2023-09-04 17:09 bug#65740: No fallback to SWH for .guix-channel dependencies Simon Tournier
@ 2023-09-08 20:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-09-09 10:04 ` Simon Tournier
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Ludovic Courtès @ 2023-09-08 20:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Simon Tournier; +Cc: 65740
Hi,
Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> skribis:
> The main reason is because the channel bimsb contains the file
> .guix-channel which reads,
>
> (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"))))
>
> And Guix is not able to fallback to SWH for these channels.
Yes, but that’s expected: we’re not specifying any commit, only the URL,
so there cannot be any sort of fallback.
> 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.
#1 happens, but only when channels are pinned (returned by ‘guix
#describe’).
Re #2, I don’t think there’s such a bug, is there? In the example
below, ‘guix describe’ shows 4 channels (including dependencies), not 2:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ ./pre-inst-env guix time-machine -C <(echo '(cons (channel (name (quote bimsb)) (url "https://github.com/BIMSBbioinfo/guix-bimsb.git")) %default-channels)') -- describe -f channels
[...]
(list (channel
(name 'guix)
(url "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git")
(branch "master")
(commit
"4dd33fc62899134606f36f92594cf160b972f685")
(introduction
(make-channel-introduction
"9edb3f66fd807b096b48283debdcddccfea34bad"
(openpgp-fingerprint
"BBB0 2DDF 2CEA F6A8 0D1D E643 A2A0 6DF2 A33A 54FA"))))
(channel
(name 'bimsb)
(url "https://github.com/BIMSBbioinfo/guix-bimsb.git")
(branch "master")
(commit
"240a599f77dab7dcb8d2ed091b90056e58a46c51"))
(channel
(name 'guix-science)
(url "https://github.com/guix-science/guix-science.git")
(branch "master")
(commit
"1ad5192cff0d7b34a2f74592c6896f901d1c9ccd"))
(channel
(name 'guix-past)
(url "https://gitlab.inria.fr/guix-hpc/guix-past")
(branch "master")
(commit
"1e25b23faa6b1716deaf7e1782becb5da6855942")))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Thanks,
Ludo’.
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* bug#65740: No fallback to SWH for .guix-channel dependencies
2023-09-08 20:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
@ 2023-09-09 10:04 ` Simon Tournier
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Simon Tournier @ 2023-09-09 10:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ludovic Courtès; +Cc: 65740-done
Hi,
On Fri, 08 Sep 2023 at 22:40, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> #1 happens, but only when channels are pinned (returned by ‘guix
> #describe’).
>
> Re #2, I don’t think there’s such a bug, is there? In the example
> below, ‘guix describe’ shows 4 channels (including dependencies), not 2:
My bad!
I had probably not done what I always recommend: “guix describe“.
Sorry for the noise.
Cheers,
simon
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