GNU bug report logs - #32339
"nix import" fails

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Nils Gillmann <ng0 <at> n0.is>

Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2018 20:01:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #17 received at 32339 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr>
Cc: 32339 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#32339: Nix import
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 17:06:09 +0200

Hello,

Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr> skribis:

> Omitting the "--strict" flag is not a solution, since then lazy evaluation
> leads to most interesting fields of the result being empty (the return string
> value is "<CODE>").

Do we know exactly why Nix stack-overflows?  Perhaps we’re evaluating
fields we shouldn’t evaluate?

It used to work :-), so something must have changed in the Nix
evaluation rules or in how Nixpkgs attribute sets are written.  We
should ask the Nix folks for guidance.

Ludo’.
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