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Texlive importer is broken

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From: Elias Kueny <elias.kueny <at> posteo.net>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Texlive importer is broken
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2022 18:56:28 +0000

Hello,

The texlive importer doesn't return any package definition anymore, for example:

> guix import texlive siunitx
> command "svn" "export" "--non-interactive" "--trust-server-cert" "-r" "59745" "svn://www.tug.org/texlive/tags/texlive-2021.3/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/siunitx/" "/tmp/guix-directory.Gs0bAp/doc/latex/siunitx/" failed with signal 11
> guix import: error: failed to download description for package 'siunitx'

I updated guix today (from 0afe9f36d8b8b69d3e69fc8c06aeadc1bd95eecd to 8f93a1e01a879ae026678dd92c18e2a2a49be540) but since I don't see any recent change in guix/import/texlive.scm, I don't know if it's relevant. Other importers work fine. All else I can say is that running the same command manually works:

> svn export --non-interactive --trust-server-cert -r 59745 "svn://tug.org/texlive/tags/texlive-2021.3/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/siunitx" "/tmp/guix-directory.Gs0bAp/doc/latex/siunitx/"
> A    siunitx
> A    siunitx/README.md
> A    siunitx/siunitx.pdf
> Exported revision 59745.

Message #8 received at 60363 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Josselin Poiret <dev <at> jpoiret.xyz>
To: Elias Kueny <elias.kueny <at> posteo.net>, 60363 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#60363: Texlive importer is broken
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2022 12:09:32 +0100

Hi Elias,
Elias Kueny <elias.kueny <at> posteo.net> writes:

> Hello,
>
> The texlive importer doesn't return any package definition anymore, for example:
>
>> guix import texlive siunitx
>> command "svn" "export" "--non-interactive" "--trust-server-cert" "-r" "59745" "svn://www.tug.org/texlive/tags/texlive-2021.3/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/siunitx/" "/tmp/guix-directory.Gs0bAp/doc/latex/siunitx/" failed with signal 11
>> guix import: error: failed to download description for package 'siunitx'

Quick question, is `svn` available in your environment?  I usually do
`guix shell subversion -- guix import texlive ...`.  This is an annoying
shortcoming of that import command that we should be able to fix imo,
especially since it's not obvious what the problem is.

Best,
-- 
Josselin Poiret

Message #11 received at 60363 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Elias Kueny <elias.kueny <at> posteo.net>
To: 60363 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#60363: Texlive importer is broken
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2022 13:48:04 +0000

Sorry if the message is duplicated, my previous attempts at replying bounced because debbugs.gnu.org doesn't support TLS.

On Wed, Dec 28 2022, Josselin Poiret wrote:
> Quick question, is `svn` available in your environment?  I usually do
> `guix shell subversion -- guix import texlive ...`.  This is an annoying
> shortcoming of that import command that we should be able to fix imo,
> especially since it's not obvious what the problem is.

I saw the the same advice in issue #55587 and indeed with svn in the environment, the import command works again. But I'm confused because it used to work and I had never installed subversion before (I'm on Guix System). Maybe it was provided by a package I removed in the meantime.

Message #14 received at 60363 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
To: Josselin Poiret <dev <at> jpoiret.xyz>, Elias Kueny <elias.kueny <at> posteo.net>,
 60363 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#60363: Texlive importer is broken
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2023 13:11:08 +0100

Hi,

On Wed, 28 Dec 2022 at 12:09, Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> Quick question, is `svn` available in your environment?  I usually do
> `guix shell subversion -- guix import texlive ...`.  This is an annoying
> shortcoming of that import command that we should be able to fix imo,
> especially since it's not obvious what the problem is.

Well, I guess the culprit is:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
             (source (with-store store
                       (download-multi-svn-to-store
                        store ref (string-append name "-svn-multi-checkout")))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

and maybe we could catch the error and report a nice hint.  Well, the
question is where to handle the error. :-)


Cheers,
simom

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