Subject: Re: bug#42509: guix refresh: Error downloading release information through the GitHub API

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 14:27:56 +0200

Hi,

Alexandru-Sergiu Marton <[email-masked]> skribis:

> I tried running `guix refresh` and it gave me this error (after
> correctly reporting around 100 packages to be updated):
>
> Backtrace:
>           12 (primitive-load "/home/brown/.config/guix/current/bin/g…")
> In guix/ui.scm:
>   1974:12 11 (run-guix-command _ . _)
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>   1736:10 10 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _)
>   1731:15  9 (with-exception-handler #<procedure 7f4cf1f528a0 at ic…> …)
>   1736:10  8 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _)
> In guix/store.scm:
>    631:22  7 (thunk)
>   2025:24  6 (run-with-store #<store-connection 256.99 7f4cfa5606e0> …)
> In guix/scripts/refresh.scm:
>    559:14  5 (_ _)
> In srfi/srfi-1.scm:
>     634:9  4 (for-each #<procedure 7f4cf8c43f80 at guix/scripts/ref…> …)
> In guix/scripts/refresh.scm:
>     362:2  3 (check-for-package-update #<package [email-masked]…> …)
> In guix/import/github.scm:
>    211:12  2 (latest-release _)
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>   1669:16  1 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
>   1669:16  0 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
>
> ice-9/boot-9.scm:1669:16: In procedure raise-exception:
> Error downloading release information through the GitHub
> API when using a GitHub token
>
> I have the GUIX_GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable set.

Fixed:

  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=ac928d3e9ebdb660f8104f3e4b890a2353787cdf

The problem was with ‘wlstream’, which is apparently no longer hosted at
that URL.  Now the result is:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ ./pre-inst-env guix refresh wlstream
guix refresh: warning: https://api.github.com/repos/atomnuker/wlstream/releases is unreachable (404)
gnu/packages/video.scm:3762:4: warning: 'github' updater failed to determine available releases for wlstream
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Thanks,
Ludo’.