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From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: c4t0 <c4t0@riseup.net>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: guix import hackage fails with errors, and failed tests
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2021 17:58:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ3okZ2GvptOd7X_auwZ-FDM+ADpFix5rOp90Ps0JUcBRpViFQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mtut7a6a.fsf@riseup.net>

Hi,

On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 at 04:19, c4t0 <c4t0@riseup.net> wrote:

> I'm having problems with 'guix import' in my environment:
> $guix import hackage -t ghc-events
> Syntax error: unexpected token : common (at line 44, column 0)
> Syntax error: unexpected end of input
> guix import: error: failed to download cabal file for package 'ghc-events'

Probably because the cabal file is bad formed.  Or better worded,
because the Guix cabal parser fails to parse the line 44 starting by
'common'.
Well, give a look at (guix import cabal).

> so I cloned guix, and:
>
> guix environment guix --pure --ad-hoc help2man git strace --container

Somehow, --container implies --pure. :-)


HTH,
simon


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-03-24 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-23 22:54 guix import hackage fails with errors, and failed tests c4t0
2021-03-24 15:13 ` c4t0
2021-03-24 16:58 ` zimoun [this message]
2021-03-24 19:41   ` c4t0
2021-03-24 21:12     ` zimoun
2021-03-25 19:23       ` c4t0
2021-03-26  4:37         ` zimoun
2021-03-26 20:21           ` c4t0
2021-03-26 22:37             ` zimoun

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