Re: Unable to configure a system with 'cuirass-service'

[Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>]

Hi,

Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org> writes:

> Carlo Zancanaro <carlo@zancanaro.id.au> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Dec 01 2016, ng0 wrote 
>>> I tried that before (though I did just think it was wrong) and now I
>>> get the same message as yesterday:
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> In gnu/services/cuirass.scm:   81: 1 [cuirass-shepherd-service #] In
>>> unknown file:    ?: 0 [string=? "" ((# # # # ...))]
>>>
>>> ERROR: In procedure string=?: ERROR: In procedure string=: Wrong
>>> type argument in position 2 (expecting string): (((#:name . "guix")
>>> (#:url . "git://git.savannah.gnu.org/guix.git") (#:load-path . ".")
>>> (#:file . "/.../cuirass/tests/gnu-system.scm") (#:proc . hydra-jobs)
>>> (#:arguments (subset . "hello")) (#:branch . "master")))
>>
>> It looks like cuirass is expecting the specifications to be a string,
>> not a list. I don't know anything about cuirass, so I can't help you
>> to configure the cuirass-service.
>>
>> Looking at the source, specifications has a comment ";string
>> (file-name)". It looks like the "specifications" field of the
>> configuration is just equivalent to the --specifications argument to the
>> cuirass command, if that helps at all.
>
> Indeed, this is a mistake on my side.  Here are 2 patches that should
> fix this issue.

I went ahead and pushed them in commits:

 - 44ccd9622eb4a0083d4f833a61172973390ca62b
 - 57aa94bd7e7d530e52356723c8f1dbf727144b25

Thanks,

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Mathieu Lirzin