GNU bug report logs - #24361
guix graph backtrace on graphviz help message

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>

Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2016 22:05:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>
Cc: 24361-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24361: guix graph backtrace on graphviz help message
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2016 22:05:23 +0100

Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il> skribis:

> efraim <at> macbook42:~$ time guix graph -t bag pbzip2 | dot -tpdf > pbzip2.pdf

[...]

> guix graph: error: scm_flush: Broken pipe

Hi Efraim!  It’s a feature, not a bug: ‘guix graph’ wasn’t able to write
everything to standard output, so it errors out.

There are other cases where it’s best to silently ignore that (‘guix
package -A’ does that for instance), but this is not one of them IMO.

Ludo’.
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