Subject: Re: bug#55066: guix pull: error: You found a bug: the program '/gnu/store/mpfp9nrzifhp3r5s3bv05b8xal5aa44f-compute-guix-derivation'

From: Maxime Devos <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 04 May 2022 11:36:46 +0200

Christopher Baines schreef op vr 22-04-2022 om 18:34 [+0100]:
> The longer explanation is that this is the error I'd expect when guix
> finds a narinfo for a store item it wants to substitute, but can't
> fetch
> the nar. Maybe it's possible to handle that scenario more gracefully,
> but generally it doesn't happen, it only happens when substitute
> servers
> misbehave.

Can we at least print a better error message? 
<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/50238> should improve error messages from
"guix pull" (by using the same system as for "guix build" and the
like), albeit not perfectly (it still says ‘found a bug’).

Greetings,
Maxime.