Subject: Re: bug#64059: Sudden unexplained error during guix pull: "channel dependency has an invalid introduction field"

From: "N. Y." <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2023 01:21:58 +0800

Hi Simon,

Thanks for taking a look! The keyring branch doesn't seem empty on my end,
though. https://github.com/ning-y/ninguix/tree/keyring

Maybe it looks empty because it is an orphan branch? I always had it as an
orphan branch though (that part never changed) and it had worked before.

On Tue, Jun 20, 2023, 00:36 Simon Tournier <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2023 at 01:56, "N. Y." <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
> > Updating channel 'ninguix' from Git repository at '
> > https://github.com/ning-y/ninguix'...
> >
> /home/ning/.cache/guix/checkouts/y6rzf466if75ebhoqonk2dqs6ac5d75tvkvziqptmqvawztuphda/.guix-channel:10:4:
> > error: channel dependency has an invalid introduction field
>
> [...]
>
> >       (channel
> >         (name 'ninguix)
> >         (url "https://github.com/ning-y/ninguix")
> >         (branch "main")
> >         (introduction
> >           (make-channel-introduction
> >             "3f7eb8b5064445d72649b1b27f714b86f3946a9a"
> >             (openpgp-fingerprint
> >               "4523 A758 035C 5177 7A8F  1E1F 2CB0 E8CD 7035 5FB7"))))
>
> The branch ’keyring’ seems empty, is it expected?  I mean the manual
> reads:
>
>         Additionally, your channel must provide all the OpenPGP keys
>         that were ever mentioned in .guix-authorizations, stored as .key
>         files, which can be either binary or “ASCII-armored”. By
>         default, those .key files are searched for in the branch named
>         keyring but you can specify a different branch name in
>         .guix-channel like so:
>
>
> https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/guix.html#Specifying-Channel-Authorizations
>
> Cheers,
> simon
>