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guix pull fails on http status code 503
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Hi Maxime,
On Mon, 05 Sep 2022 at 22:20, Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be> wrote:
> On 05-09-2022 10:21, zimoun wrote:
>> On sam., 03 sept. 2022 at 19:27, Maxime Devos<maximedevos <at> telenet.be> wrote:
>>
>>> * if some but not all channels are available, and there is at least
>>> one updated channel --> log the missing channels, and update the
>>> channels that_are_ available (but don't 'ignore' the missing
>>> channels by removing them!).
>> What do you mean by «but don't 'ignore' the missing channels by removing
>> them!»? Do you mean keep the last revision locally known for this
>> channel?
>
> I'm not sure what you're asking, because of the negatives.
[...]
> (It's not unlike double negatives! I first thought of the latter
> interpretation but on second thought you might have meant the former.)
IIUC, you have hard time to parse the double-negative you wrote earlier
in this thread. :-)
> With "but don't ignore [...] by [...]", I meant that, yes.
>
> If you meant "don't ignore [...] by [...]", then no, with 'ignoring by
> removing', I meant, literally removing them. More concretely, a
> situation like this:
>
> * In the channels.scm, two channels are declared: guix and guix-foo.
> * User does "guix pull"; Guix downloads the source code of guix and
> guix-foo.
> * Downloading guix failed (503). As such, Guix decided to ignore the
> guix channel, by removing it from the list of channels to build.
> (The in-memory list I mean, I don't mean modifying the channels.smc
> file)
> * Guix tries building the guix-foo channel and installing it, without
> the guix channel.
> * This cannot work (the guix-foo channel uses modules from guix for
> basic stuff like G-exps, packages, coreutils, ..., and it was the
> removed guix channel that had things build-aux/build-self.scm which
> is required for pulling).
The initial report by André is about:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ guix pull
Updating channel 'nonguix' from Git repository at 'https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix'...
guix pull: error: Git error: unexpected http status code: 503
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
So the situation is more likely: Guix from Savannah is reachable and
guix-foo is not.
For sure, we can discuss the case when Guix is unavailable. However,
the 'guix channel is special; see all conditionals using ’guix-channel?’.
Well, %default-guix-channel is somehow a corner use-case when the
regular use-case seems about a failure of additional channels.
Cheers,
simon
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