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

From: Josselin Poiret <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2022 12:09:32 +0100

Hi Elias,
Elias Kueny <[email-masked]> 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