Subject: guix import -r swallows errors
From: Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2022 17:37:23 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Consider this:

   $ ./pre-inst-env guix import elpa -r syslog
   $ echo $?
   0

And now this:

   $ ./pre-inst-env guix import elpa syslog
   guix import: error: failed to download package 'syslog'
   $ echo $?
   1

The recursive importer swallows the error.

-- 
Ricardo