Subject: Re: bug#36373: failed copy-file should print path

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 16:58:10 +0200

Hi,

Robert Vollmert <[email-masked]> skribis:

> ERROR: In procedure copy-file:
> In procedure copy-file: Permission denied

Yeah, this is terrible, and really a Guile bug.  In (guix ui), we have
‘error-reporting-wrapper’ that we use to “fix” several functions such as
‘copy-file’ that would otherwise fail to provide the relevant info.

We should really fix it for good in Guile 3.0, though.

Thanks,
Ludo’.