On Fri, Oct 08 2021, Julien Lepiller wrote:

> Hi Guix!
>
> the attached patch prevents early failures in "guix refresh -t opam".
> It will now simply continue when it encounters a package that is not in
> the opam repository.
> From f6260b762dd78772e0d90d96dd92d22346a09007 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
> Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2021 04:58:27 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] guix: opam: Do not fail when refreshing.
>
> Because we throw an error when a package is not in the opam repository,
> the updater would crash when encountering a package that is not in opam
> but uses the ocaml-build-system, such as opam itself.  This catches the
> error and continues without updating said package, and lets us update
> the rest of the packages.
>
> * guix/import/opam.scm (latest-release): Catch errors and do not crash.
> ---
>  guix/import/opam.scm | 23 +++++++++++++----------
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/guix/import/opam.scm b/guix/import/opam.scm
> index fe13d29f03..8ff1a3ae63 100644
> --- a/guix/import/opam.scm
> +++ b/guix/import/opam.scm
> @@ -409,16 +409,19 @@ package in OPAM."
>  
>  (define (latest-release package)
>    "Return an <upstream-source> for the latest release of PACKAGE."
> -  (and-let* ((opam-name (guix-package->opam-name package))
> -             (opam-file (opam-fetch opam-name))
> -             (version (assoc-ref opam-file "version"))
> -             (opam-content (assoc-ref opam-file "metadata"))
> -             (url-dict (metadata-ref opam-content "url"))
> -             (source-url (metadata-ref url-dict "src")))
> -    (upstream-source
> -      (package (package-name package))
> -      (version version)
> -      (urls (list source-url)))))
> +  (catch #t

Using (catch #t ...) is generally not a good idea.  Maybe ‘opam-fetch’ should
raise a ‘opam-fetch’ condition, and then we would only catch those
conditions?