Hi Gábor, Gábor Boskovits <boskov...@gmail.com> skribis:
> guix refresh -u unibilium > fails with the following backtrace: > gabriel@guixsd ~/guix$ ./pre-inst-env guix refresh -u unibilium > Backtrace: > 14 (apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure 728c20>) > In ice-9/boot-9.scm: > 705:2 13 (call-with-prompt _ _ #<procedure default-prompt-handle…>) > In ice-9/eval.scm: > 619:8 12 (_ #(#(#<directory (guile-user) 7ae140>))) > In guix/ui.scm: > 1654:12 11 (run-guix-command _ . _) > In ice-9/boot-9.scm: > 829:9 10 (catch _ _ #<procedure 7f7f2456b9b8 at guix/ui.scm:624…> …) > 829:9 9 (catch _ _ #<procedure 7f7f2456b9d0 at guix/ui.scm:750…> …) > In guix/scripts/refresh.scm: > 513:8 8 (_) > In guix/store.scm: > 1737:24 7 (run-with-store _ _ #:guile-for-build _ #:system _ # _) > In guix/scripts/refresh.scm: > 531:16 6 (_ _) > In srfi/srfi-1.scm: > 640:9 5 (for-each #<procedure 289bd20 at guix/scripts/refresh.…> …) > In guix/scripts/refresh.scm: > 301:20 4 (update-package #<store-connection 256.99 93be10> #<pa…> …) > In guix/upstream.scm: > 374:22 3 (package-update #<store-connection 256.99 93be10> _ _ # _) > 302:17 2 (download-tarball #<store-connection 256.99 93be10> #f # …) > In guix/download.scm: > 568:55 1 (download-to-store #<store-connection 256.99 93be10> #f …) > In unknown file: > 0 (basename #f #<undefined>) > > ERROR: In procedure basename: > In procedure scm_to_utf8_stringn: Wrong type argument in position 1 > (expecting string): #f This is because unibilium uses ‘git-fetch’, and currently ‘guix refresh -u’ only knows how to download tarballs, it doesn’t know how to make Git checkouts. Commit 0bd1498fc40820be35125cc0a62482d015b58e9b fixes the issue by at least reporting a proper error message. We’ll have to adjust <upstream-source> to support not just tarball URLs, as is currently the case, but also Git references. Thanks, Ludo’.
