From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Scott N. Walck" Subject: Re: trouble with guix pull and guile-git Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2018 14:59:08 -0400 Message-ID: <20180331185908.GA8656@X250> References: <20180331020234.GA7279@X250> <87h8owjjkz.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33580) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f2Lie-0002FT-9m for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2018 14:59:17 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f2Lid-0006gz-5b for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2018 14:59:16 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87h8owjjkz.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= Cc: help-guix@gnu.org 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" 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 > > 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’.