Guix Channel News File Extension

Guix Channel News File Extension

[jgart]

Hi Guixers,

Do we still have to avoid calling the channel file with a .scm extension?

I see that the manual specifies to avoid its use but if I look in a guix
checkout I see that the channel file is called with a .scm extension:

etc/news.scm

Should the manual be updated to ignore that warning?

I'm calling the news file news.txt as per the manual instead of news.scm

https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Writing-Channel-News.html

Also, After doing a `guix pull` I don't see channel news reported even
after running `guix pull --news`.

Did I go wrong somewhere with my set up?

Any code review/advice is much appreciated:

https://git.sr.ht/~whereiseveryone/guixrus/commit/f0c3569108cfeb4e65a6a4964dc3383836c0509c

all best,

jgart

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Re: Guix Channel News File Extension

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

jgart <jgart@dismail.de> skribis:

> Do we still have to avoid calling the channel file with a .scm extension?
>
> I see that the manual specifies to avoid its use but if I look in a guix
> checkout I see that the channel file is called with a .scm extension:
>
> etc/news.scm

Good point.  The news file should either not have the .scm extension, or
it should live in a directory other than the module directory specified
in ‘.guix-channel’.

HTH!

Ludo’.