Re: Profile symlink error w. python

[Ludovic Courtès]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 09:20:40AM +0100, Pjotr Prins wrote:
>> I am hitting this problem:
>> 
>> guix$ ./pre-inst-env guix package -i python-2.7.10
>> The following package will be installed:
>>    python       2.7.10  
>> /gnu/store/4bs4mx6xyx0jx9827vmmbxyhjln7cmcv-python-2.7.10
>> 
>> (...)
>> 
>>      ?: 4 [hash-for-each #<procedure 155d9f0 at 
>> ./guix/build/union.scm:141:21 (file dirs-with-file)> ...]
>>   In ./guix/build/union.scm:
>>    108: 3 [union 
>> "/gnu/store/251b1fh9rsmfzry523xi4fb7w4j7x2af-profile/share/man/man1/python.1"
>>  ...]
>>   In unknown file:
>>      ?: 2 [partition #<procedure file-is-directory? (file)> #]
>>   In ./guix/build/union.scm:
>>     49: 1 [file-is-directory? 
>> "/gnu/store/4bs4mx6xyx0jx9827vmmbxyhjln7cmcv-python-2.7.10/share/man/man1/python.1"]
>>   In unknown file:
>>      ?: 0 [stat 
>> "/gnu/store/4bs4mx6xyx0jx9827vmmbxyhjln7cmcv-python-2.7.10/share/man/man1/python.1"
>>  ...]
>> 
>>   ERROR: In procedure stat:
>>   ERROR: In procedure stat: No such file or directory: 
>> "/gnu/store/4bs4mx6xyx0jx9827vmmbxyhjln7cmcv-python-2.7.10/share/man/man1/python.1"
>>   builder for `/gnu/store/m3lfvp9sby8yx9i7np0wv16i7kj7bc51-profile.drv' 
>> failed with exit code 1
>>   guix package: error: build failed: build of 
>> `/gnu/store/m3lfvp9sby8yx9i7np0wv16i7kj7bc51-profile.drv' failed
>> 
>> the symlink points to a symlink:
>> 
>> ls -l 
>> /gnu/store/4bs4mx6xyx0jx9827vmmbxyhjln7cmcv-python-2.7.10/share/man/man1/*
>> lrwxrwxrwx 6 kranz root   12 Jan  1  1970 
>> /gnu/store/4bs4mx6xyx0jx9827vmmbxyhjln7cmcv-python-2.7.10/share/man/man1/python.1
>>  -> python2.1.gz
>> lrwxrwxrwx 6 kranz root   14 Jan  1  1970 
>> /gnu/store/4bs4mx6xyx0jx9827vmmbxyhjln7cmcv-python-2.7.10/share/man/man1/python2.1
>>  -> python2.7.1.gz
>> -r--r--r-- 6 kranz root 5620 Jan  1  1970 
>> /gnu/store/4bs4mx6xyx0jx9827vmmbxyhjln7cmcv-python-2.7.10/share/man/man1/python2.7.1.gz
>
> It looks like python.1 points to a non-existent file (python2.1.gz
> instead of python2.1).

Indeed, we should fix it.

I can’t reproduce the profile creation bug though.  For instance,

  guix package -p foo -i python-2.7.10 idutils

works fine.

Pjotr, do you think you could find the package combination that triggers
this bug?

Thanks,
Ludo’.