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bug#42247: Channel news raise error on `guix pull`
From: |
Pierre Neidhardt |
Subject: |
bug#42247: Channel news raise error on `guix pull` |
Date: |
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 11:13:24 +0200 |
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> This suggests that the ‘news.scm’ file of your channel is being picked
> up and evaluated as if it were a module, which it’s not.
>
> The solution is to rename it to, say, ‘news.txt’, or to move the actual
> modules to a sub-directory and specify that in ‘.guix-channel’ (info
> "(guix) Channels").
Thanks for the hint, this works indeed!
1. Is there anything we can do to catch this error and output a more
intelligible error message?
2. I suggest we document this pitfall in the documentation.
Cheers!
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Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/
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