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From: Brian Woodcox <bw@inskydata.com>
Subject: Re: Having a problem invoking curl only when using guix pull
Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 15:49:58 -0600
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>=20
> Hi,
>=20
> I=E2=80=99m having problems with a piece of code.
>=20
> ;; Retrieve git commit date
> (define get-commit-date (lambda _
>  (let* ((out (open-input-pipe (format #f "curl --silent '~a'" =
%api-url)))
>         (str (get-string-all out))
>         (queryResults (json-string->scm str))
>         (date (cdr (hash-get-handle (cdr (hash-get-handle (cdr =
(hash-get-handle queryResults "commit")) "author")) "date"))))
>         (display "Contacting github for commit date...\n")
>         (close-pipe out)
>         date)))
>=20
> This code sits above my package code and I use it to dynamically =
populate my some values when building my package.
>=20
> Everything works great and I can install the package locally without =
any problems.
>=20
> My issue occurs if I try to issue a guix pull to bring this in through =
a separate channel.
>=20
> When I do that I always get =
/gnu/store/=E2=80=A6-bash-minimal-4.4.23/bin/bash: curl: command not =
found.
>=20
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>=20
> Thanks.
>=20

So I=E2=80=99ve worked on this further and I was able to get the curl =
command to run.

In the end, it turns out that the networking service is not available =
when building a package.

It=E2=80=99s probably not worth the trouble to make it work.