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offload: confusing error when signing keys are missing

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Message #8 received at 38692 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
Cc: 38692 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38692: offload: confusing error when signing keys are missing
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 14:28:16 -0500

Hi,

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net> writes:

> When the target machine has no signing keys (generated with “guix
> archive --generate-key”) the source machine issuing “guix offload test”
> will print this confusing error message:
>
>     guix offload: error: implementation cannot deal with > 32-bit integers

Sadly still true as of 1.4.0rc2.  I'd like to fix it, but it's
intertwined in the guix-daemon C++ code, so it'll need a bit more
effort.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim

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