trouble with guix pull and guile-git

trouble with guix pull and guile-git

[Scott N. Walck]

Hi folks,

The FSF's LibrePlanet last weekend has reinvigorated my interest
to learn more about and start using guix.  I have a version of
the guix package manager on my machine from last year.  It's a
little newer than 0.13.0.  I tried using guix pull to update it,
but there is a problem as the transcript below shows.  I suspect
that the address

https://gitlab.com/amirouche/guile-git/

is no longer correct.  It looks like the source for guile-git is at

https://gitlab.com/guile-git/ .

I git-cloned the guile-git repo, but I'm not sure how to install
it or where to put the libraries.  Can anybody help?

Thanks,

Scott



walck@X250:~/computer/PackageManagement/guix$ guix --version
guile: warning: failed to install locale
warning: failed to install locale: Invalid argument
guix (GNU Guix) 20170526.16
Copyright (C) 2017 the Guix authors
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
walck@X250:~/computer/PackageManagement/guix$ guix pull
guile: warning: failed to install locale
warning: failed to install locale: Invalid argument

Starting download of /tmp/guix-file.Gzf8nt
From https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/snapshot/master.tar.gz...
 ....tar.gz                                 182KiB/s 01:23 | 14.7MiB transferred
unpacking '/gnu/store/idnncmjzlk1vmwggsqgwdg5dqzpshamq-guix-latest.tar.gz'...
substitute: guix substitute: warning: ACL for archive imports seems to be uninitialized, substitutes may be unavailable
Cloning into '/gnu/store/1rdw2svz4pyislan7q67mnk70c13sczm-guile-git-0.0-2.06f9fc3-checkout'...
fatal: unable to update url base from redirection:
  asked for: https://gitlab.com/amirouche/guile-git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack
   redirect: https://gitlab.com/users/sign_in
environment variable `PATH' unset
builder for `/gnu/store/47yy3aibg105arkz40dwsmriw20r4g3i-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/xqd3b1s3wdpxdb7a72crnfkj10zsmmcy-guile-git-0.0-2.06f9fc3.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
guix pull: error: build failed: build of `/gnu/store/xqd3b1s3wdpxdb7a72crnfkj10zsmmcy-guile-git-0.0-2.06f9fc3.drv' failed
walck@X250:~/computer/PackageManagement/guix$ 

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Re: trouble with guix pull and guile-git

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello Scott,

"Scott N. Walck" <walck@lvc.edu> skribis:

> The FSF's LibrePlanet last weekend has reinvigorated my interest
> to learn more about and start using guix.  I have a version of
> the guix package manager on my machine from last year.  It's a
> little newer than 0.13.0.  I tried using guix pull to update it,
> but there is a problem as the transcript below shows.  I suspect
> that the address
>
> https://gitlab.com/amirouche/guile-git/
>
> is no longer correct.  It looks like the source for guile-git is at
>
> https://gitlab.com/guile-git/ .

Indeed.

> walck@X250:~/computer/PackageManagement/guix$ guix --version
> guile: warning: failed to install locale
> warning: failed to install locale: Invalid argument
> guix (GNU Guix) 20170526.16
> Copyright (C) 2017 the Guix authors
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> walck@X250:~/computer/PackageManagement/guix$ guix pull
> guile: warning: failed to install locale
> warning: failed to install locale: Invalid argument
>
> Starting download of /tmp/guix-file.Gzf8nt
> From https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/snapshot/master.tar.gz...
>  ....tar.gz                                 182KiB/s 01:23 | 14.7MiB transferred
> unpacking '/gnu/store/idnncmjzlk1vmwggsqgwdg5dqzpshamq-guix-latest.tar.gz'...
> substitute: guix substitute: warning: ACL for archive imports seems to be uninitialized, substitutes may be unavailable
> Cloning into '/gnu/store/1rdw2svz4pyislan7q67mnk70c13sczm-guile-git-0.0-2.06f9fc3-checkout'...
> fatal: unable to update url base from redirection:
>   asked for: https://gitlab.com/amirouche/guile-git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack
>    redirect: https://gitlab.com/users/sign_in
> environment variable `PATH' unset

The problem here is that the Guix you have is referring to the old URL,
so it fails to download and build Guile-Git.

However, this source code is mirrored on mirror.hydra.gnu.org.  So
normally, Guix would download this guile-git checkout directly from
mirror.hydra.gnu.org, provided you enabled substitutes:

  https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Substitute-Server-Authorization.html

Could you check if you went through that authorization step?

HTH,
Ludo’.

Re: trouble with guix pull and guile-git

[Scott N. Walck]

Thanks, Ludo'.  That was just what I needed.

Scott

On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 06:28:12PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello Scott,
> 
> "Scott N. Walck" <walck@lvc.edu> skribis:
> 
> > The FSF's LibrePlanet last weekend has reinvigorated my interest
> > to learn more about and start using guix.  I have a version of
> > the guix package manager on my machine from last year.  It's a
> > little newer than 0.13.0.  I tried using guix pull to update it,
> > but there is a problem as the transcript below shows.  I suspect
> > that the address
> >
> > https://gitlab.com/amirouche/guile-git/
> >
> > is no longer correct.  It looks like the source for guile-git is at
> >
> > https://gitlab.com/guile-git/ .
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> > walck@X250:~/computer/PackageManagement/guix$ guix --version
> > guile: warning: failed to install locale
> > warning: failed to install locale: Invalid argument
> > guix (GNU Guix) 20170526.16
> > Copyright (C) 2017 the Guix authors
> > License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> > This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> > There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> > walck@X250:~/computer/PackageManagement/guix$ guix pull
> > guile: warning: failed to install locale
> > warning: failed to install locale: Invalid argument
> >
> > Starting download of /tmp/guix-file.Gzf8nt
> > From https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/snapshot/master.tar.gz...
> >  ....tar.gz                                 182KiB/s 01:23 | 14.7MiB transferred
> > unpacking '/gnu/store/idnncmjzlk1vmwggsqgwdg5dqzpshamq-guix-latest.tar.gz'...
> > substitute: guix substitute: warning: ACL for archive imports seems to be uninitialized, substitutes may be unavailable
> > Cloning into '/gnu/store/1rdw2svz4pyislan7q67mnk70c13sczm-guile-git-0.0-2.06f9fc3-checkout'...
> > fatal: unable to update url base from redirection:
> >   asked for: https://gitlab.com/amirouche/guile-git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack
> >    redirect: https://gitlab.com/users/sign_in
> > environment variable `PATH' unset
> 
> The problem here is that the Guix you have is referring to the old URL,
> so it fails to download and build Guile-Git.
> 
> However, this source code is mirrored on mirror.hydra.gnu.org.  So
> normally, Guix would download this guile-git checkout directly from
> mirror.hydra.gnu.org, provided you enabled substitutes:
> 
>   https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Substitute-Server-Authorization.html
> 
> Could you check if you went through that authorization step?
> 
> HTH,
> Ludo’.