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From: swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: 33272@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33272: guix refresh/download backtrace error when missing nss-certs
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2018 12:42:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a76aa405-f804-587c-85c9-ff6cbc4f5835@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181105204802.GD19298@jasmine.lan>

Hi

On 2018-11-05 21:48, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 09:39:15PM +0100, swedebugia wrote:
>> How do we catch the error?
> I am basically a novice Schemer still, so you will have to figure out
> most of this on your own, unless someone else brings more advice :)

Me too

> In general, dealing with exceptions in Guile:
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Exceptions.html
>
> There are lots of examples of how to use those mechanisms in the Guix
> source code — the error message in your original email comes from a
> caught exception in (guix build download).
>
> You'll need to find out what is crashing and generating the backtrace,
> and then decide what counts as a failure mode that we want to catch in
> that context.
Thank you for the tips. This sounds too complicated for me to bite at my 
current skill level.

-- 
Cheers
Swedebugia

  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-06 11:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-05 11:16 bug#33272: guix refresh/download backtrace error when missing nss-certs swedebugia
2018-11-05 20:26 ` Leo Famulari
2018-11-05 20:39   ` swedebugia
2018-11-05 20:48     ` Leo Famulari
2018-11-06 11:42       ` swedebugia [this message]
2018-11-06 17:36         ` Leo Famulari

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