GNU bug report logs - #52577
‘guix lint’ throws an ugly backtrace if the GitHub updater receives “rate limit exceeded” error

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Xinglu Chen <public <at> yoctocell.xyz>
Cc: 52577-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52577: ‘guix lint’ throws an ugly
 backtrace if the GitHub
 updater receives “rate limit exceeded” error
Date: Sat, 14 May 2022 16:18:26 +0200

Hi,

Xinglu Chen <public <at> yoctocell.xyz> skribis:

> When running ‘guix lint -c refresh’ on a package hosted on GitHub, I get
> an ugly backtrace when the GitHub rate limit has been reached.
>
> $ guix lint pipewire

[...]

>    1428:5  5 (check-for-updates #<package pipewire <at> 0.3.29 gnu/packag…>)
>     771:2  4 (call-with-networking-fail-safe _ _ _)
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>   1752:10  3 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _)
>   1685:16  2 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
>   1683:16  1 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
>   1685:16  0 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
>
> ice-9/boot-9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception:
> ERROR:
>   1. &http-get-error:
>       uri: #<<uri> scheme: https userinfo: #f host: "api.github.com" port: #f path: "/repos/PipeWire/pipewire/releases" query: #f fragment: #f>
>       code: 403
>       reason: "rate limit exceeded"
>   2. &message: "https://api.github.com/repos/PipeWire/pipewire/releases: HTTP download failed: 403 (\"rate limit exceeded\")"

This was fixed in March with commit
55e8e283ae398cc476e50e822383797c5f43db4c.

Closing!

Ludo’.

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