Subject: Re: bug#42247: Channel news raise error on `guix pull`

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 12:27:39 +0200

Hi,

Pierre Neidhardt <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> This suggests that the ‘news.scm’ file of your channel is being picked
>> up and evaluated as if it were a module, which it’s not.
>>
>> The solution is to rename it to, say, ‘news.txt’, or to move the actual
>> modules to a sub-directory and specify that in ‘.guix-channel’ (info
>> "(guix) Channels").
>
> Thanks for the hint, this works indeed!
>
> 1. Is there anything we can do to catch this error and output a more
> intelligible error message?

I don’t think so: Guile is just doing its job and picking up .scm
files.

> 2. I suggest we document this pitfall in the documentation.

Yup, makes sense; would you like to send a patch?

Thanks,
Ludo’.