GNU bug report logs - #33404
failure behavior for "guix package --upgrade"

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Reed Campbell Meyerson <reedmeye <at> uw.edu>

Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 01:29:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 33404 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Reed Campbell Meyerson <reedmeye <at> uw.edu>
To: ludo <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#33404: failure behavior for "guix package --upgrade"
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2018 23:53:59 +0000
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I'm not quite sure how to check, but I don't think I added anything that
wasn't default.

On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 9:23 PM Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Reed Campbell Meyerson <reedmeye <at> uw.edu> skribis:
>
> > I am experiencing some strange behavior when upgrading packages. After a
> > substitution fails, the upgrade will fail at the same point every time
> > until I upgrade that point on its own, and then it will proceed until it
> > potentially fails at a different point.
> >
> > I have attached a screenshot of the output. This was while trying to
> > upgrade qutebrowser, but it happened before when upgrading GHC.
>
> Which substitute server(s) are you using?
>
> It could be that the substitute Guix was trying to fetch was temporarily
> unavailable from the server and eventually came back—hydra.gnu.org has
> been under maintenance a week ago as you might have seen.
>
> Thanks for reporting the issue,
> Ludo’.
>
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