Subject: Re: bug#60363: Texlive importer is broken

From: Simon Tournier <[email-masked]>
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 <[email-masked]> 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