Re: guile-git repository renamed: cannot upgrade

[Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>]

Hi Ludo,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
>
>> I’ve just installed GuixSD from the latest release on a server and
>> wanted to upgrade, so I ran “guix pull”.
>>
>> Unfortunately, this fails as it attempts to download “guile-git”, which
>> has been moved from https://gitlab.com/amirouche/guile-git/ to
>> https://gitlab.com/guile-git/guile-git/.
>>
>> The result is this:
>>
>> Starting download of /tmp/guix-file.ii1CKK
>> From https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/snapshot/master.tar.gz...
>>  ?.tar.gz                                   700KiB/s 00:20 | 13.4MiB transferred
>> unpacking '/gnu/store/7kr7jvwrk37nl7c29kn4kicmf8jl302g-guix-latest.tar.gz'...
>> Cloning into '/gnu/store/1rdw2svz4pyislan7q67mnk70c13sczm-guile-git-0.0-2.06f9fc3-checkout'...
>> remote: Project 'amirouche/guile-git' was moved to 'guile-git/guile-git'.
>> remote:
>> remote: Please update your Git remote and try again:
>> remote:
>> remote:   git remote set-url origin https://gitlab.com/guile-git/guile-git.git
>> fatal: repository 'https://gitlab.com/amirouche/guile-git/' not found
>> environment variable `PATH' unset
>> builder for `/gnu/store/3xp8ca3shq6dz849c0jy6qa3z231bmrw-guile-git-0.0-2.06f9fc3-checkout.drv' failed to produce output path `/gnu/store/1rdw2svz4pyislan7q67mnk70c13sczm-guile-git-0.0-2.06f9fc3-checkout'
>> cannot build derivation `/gnu/store/rl7ms8rmbywvydy4qf656g1sdfxafb7r-guile-git-0.0-2.06f9fc3.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
>> guix pull: error: build failed: build of `/gnu/store/rl7ms8rmbywvydy4qf656g1sdfxafb7r-guile-git-0.0-2.06f9fc3.drv' failed
>
> There should be substitutes, at least for the source:
[…]

Indeed.  I had substitutes disabled in the daemon configuration (this is
a build host).

> (Hmm, this is armhf-linux?)

It should be x86_64.

> But yeah, the problem remains for someone building from source.  :-/

Why does this happen with “guix pull”, though?  Is “guile-git”
absolutely required by “guix pull”?

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Ricardo

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