From: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 42247@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42247: Channel news raise error on `guix pull`
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2020 11:13:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mu46qurv.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87imew9vfk.fsf@gnu.org>
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Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> This suggests that the ‘news.scm’ file of your channel is being picked
> up and evaluated as if it were a module, which it’s not.
>
> The solution is to rename it to, say, ‘news.txt’, or to move the actual
> modules to a sub-directory and specify that in ‘.guix-channel’ (info
> "(guix) Channels").
Thanks for the hint, this works indeed!
1. Is there anything we can do to catch this error and output a more
intelligible error message?
2. I suggest we document this pitfall in the documentation.
Cheers!
--
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-11 9:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-07 14:54 bug#42247: Channel news raise error on `guix pull` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-07-09 22:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-07-11 9:13 ` Pierre Neidhardt [this message]
2020-07-13 10:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-07-13 12:50 ` Bengt Richter
2020-07-14 8:53 ` Pierre Neidhardt
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