Re: trouble with guix pull and guile-git

[Scott N. Walck]

Thanks, Ludo'.  That was just what I needed.

Scott

On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 06:28:12PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello Scott,
> 
> "Scott N. Walck" <address@hidden> skribis:
> 
> > The FSF's LibrePlanet last weekend has reinvigorated my interest
> > to learn more about and start using guix.  I have a version of
> > the guix package manager on my machine from last year.  It's a
> > little newer than 0.13.0.  I tried using guix pull to update it,
> > but there is a problem as the transcript below shows.  I suspect
> > that the address
> >
> > https://gitlab.com/amirouche/guile-git/
> >
> > is no longer correct.  It looks like the source for guile-git is at
> >
> > https://gitlab.com/guile-git/ .
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> > address@hidden:~/computer/PackageManagement/guix$ guix --version
> > guile: warning: failed to install locale
> > warning: failed to install locale: Invalid argument
> > guix (GNU Guix) 20170526.16
> > Copyright (C) 2017 the Guix authors
> > License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later 
> > <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> > This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> > There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> > address@hidden:~/computer/PackageManagement/guix$ guix pull
> > guile: warning: failed to install locale
> > warning: failed to install locale: Invalid argument
> >
> > Starting download of /tmp/guix-file.Gzf8nt
> > From https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/snapshot/master.tar.gz...
> >  ....tar.gz                                 182KiB/s 01:23 | 14.7MiB 
> > transferred
> > unpacking 
> > '/gnu/store/idnncmjzlk1vmwggsqgwdg5dqzpshamq-guix-latest.tar.gz'...
> > substitute: guix substitute: warning: ACL for archive imports seems to be 
> > uninitialized, substitutes may be unavailable
> > Cloning into 
> > '/gnu/store/1rdw2svz4pyislan7q67mnk70c13sczm-guile-git-0.0-2.06f9fc3-checkout'...
> > fatal: unable to update url base from redirection:
> >   asked for: 
> > https://gitlab.com/amirouche/guile-git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack
> >    redirect: https://gitlab.com/users/sign_in
> > environment variable `PATH' unset
> 
> The problem here is that the Guix you have is referring to the old URL,
> so it fails to download and build Guile-Git.
> 
> However, this source code is mirrored on mirror.hydra.gnu.org.  So
> normally, Guix would download this guile-git checkout directly from
> mirror.hydra.gnu.org, provided you enabled substitutes:
> 
>   
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Substitute-Server-Authorization.html
> 
> Could you check if you went through that authorization step?
> 
> HTH,
> Ludo’.