bug#40535: [core-updates]: Updating `guix' makes package-transitive-supported-systems test fail

[Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>]

merge 40535 40482
thanks

Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On current core-updates
>
>     d523eb5c9c gnu: python-cython: The i686 python2 workaround is needed for 32-bit ARM too.
>
> updating the guix package like so
>
>     make update-guix-package
>
> leads to a test failure of package-transitive-supported-systems
>
>     make check TESTS=tests/packages
>
> =>
>
>     test-name: package-transitive-supported-systems, implicit inputs
>     location: /home/janneke/src/guix/core-updates/tests/packages.scm:397
>     source:
>     + (test-equal
>     +   "package-transitive-supported-systems, implicit inputs"
>     +   %supported-systems
>     +   (let ((p (dummy-package
>     +              "foo"
>     +              (build-system gnu-build-system)
>     +              (supported-systems
>     +                `("does-not-exist" "foobar" ,@%supported-systems)))))
>     +     (parameterize
>     +       ((%current-system "armhf-linux"))
>     +       (package-transitive-supported-systems p))))
>     expected-value: ("x86_64-linux" "i686-linux" "armhf-linux" "aarch64-linux" "mips64el-linux" "i586-gnu")
>     actual-value: ("x86_64-linux" "i686-linux")
>     result: FAIL
>
> Last week, when core-updates was at
>
>     1808e64de0 gnu: coreutils: Typo: Use libcap only when supported.
>
> it worked correctly.

This is a known problem: <https://bugs.gnu.org/40482>.  I've merged the
reports.  We decided on #guix to ignore it for now, you can try one of
the workarounds described in #40482 in the mean time.

Sorry for the inconvenience!