Hello, Pjotr Prins <pjotr.publi...@thebird.nl> skribis:
> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 03:08:05PM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Pjotr Prins <pjotr.publi...@thebird.nl> skribis: >> >> > Note that I do most of my buiding with --no-grafts. >> >> This is an unsafe thing to do. > > Depends on the machine and what it is used for. Yes, for services that > can be vulnerable you need to use grafts using an older guix tree. But > I mostly build against git checkouts of guix - which means I am using > the latest versions of packages anyway. Agree? Yes, sure; I just wanted to make sure you had check the “I understand the risks” box. ;-) >> > In ./guix/build/union.scm: >> > 50: 1 [file-is-directory? >> > "/gnu/store/q5kdj7gpawi94pqd15x3wizjq0nx4zhx-python-2.7.13/share/man/man1/python.1"] >> > In unknown file: >> > ?: 0 [stat >> > "/gnu/store/q5kdj7gpawi94pqd15x3wizjq0nx4zhx-python-2.7.13/share/man/man1/python.1" >> > ...] >> > >> > ERROR: In procedure stat: >> > ERROR: In procedure stat: No such file or directory: >> > "/gnu/store/q5kdj7gpawi94pqd15x3wizjq0nx4zhx-python-2.7.13/share/man/man1/python.1" >> > builder for `/gnu/store/hrl55dd3m9v8jqwf3jn5g0j36ix5n1n5-profile.drv' >> > failed with exit code 1 >> > guix package: error: build failed: build of >> > `/gnu/store/hrl55dd3m9v8jqwf3jn5g0j36ix5n1n5-profile.drv' failed >> >> I can???t seem to reproduce it: > >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >> $ ./pre-inst-env guix package -p foo -i python@2.7 >> The following package will be installed: >> python 2.7.13 >> /gnu/store/p0ygwmwspjpn4pwnla3p26n0xrypzdxv-python-2.7.13 >> >> substitute: updating list of substitutes from >> 'https://bayfront.guixsd.org'... 100.0% >> substitute: updating list of substitutes from >> 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... 100.0% >> The following derivations will be built: >> /gnu/store/x0pffs6dzzzrajvhajicwgw6aj0g34zl-profile.drv >> /gnu/store/xi5js16n6f9v5vr4cdqsqnh9vcm3yppn-manual-database.drv >> substitute: updating list of substitutes from >> 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... 100.0% >> Creating manual page database for 1 packages... done in 0.015 s >> find-files: >> /gnu/store/p0ygwmwspjpn4pwnla3p26n0xrypzdxv-python-2.7.13/share/man/man1/python.1: >> No such file or directory >> 1 package in profile >> The following environment variable definitions may be needed: >> export PATH="foo/bin${PATH:+:}$PATH" >> export >> PYTHONPATH="foo/lib/python2.7/site-packages${PYTHONPATH:+:}$PYTHONPATH" >> $ git describe >> v0.12.0-3905-g516bfed7a >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- >> >> Could you check if the problem occurs with current Guix, and if it does, >> whether the above command is easy to reproduce it? > > I am using current Guix. The problem occurs on an existing profile. On > a new profile it does not happen. > > I remember the python.1 path is a symlink not pointing anywhere. We > dealt with that a year ago. Maybe it now confuses the man db builder. > Does it somehow use the (existing) profile? Yes, it could be that it happens with a particular combination of packages in the profile. Could you try to see if you could reproduce the problem in a fresh profile starting from what the offending profile has and gradually reducing the package set? Thanks, Ludo’.
