Subject: ‘guix refresh -u’ stops at the first failure to determine releases
From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2022 15:54:09 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Starting from commit 53b9c27aa59bebf955f0aa24fef60a101480ef5c (a fix for
<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/55987>), we get:

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$ ./pre-inst-env guix refresh -t cran r-a3 r-googlesheets r-a4 -u
gnu/packages/bioconductor.scm:9233:2: warning: no updater for r-a4
guix refresh: warning: failed to retrieve package information from https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/googlesheets/DESCRIPTION: 404 (Not Found)
guix refresh: error: updater failed to determine available releases for r-googlesheets
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That is, ‘guix refresh -u’ stops on the first failure (in this case
‘r-a3’ is not processed).  That makes it hard to use for mass updates as
in ‘guix refresh -t cran -u’.

(Reported by Ricardo on #guix.)

Ludo’.