Hi Maxime, On Thu, 08 Sep 2022 at 11:23, Maxime Devos <maximede...@telenet.be> wrote:
> Looking at 'latest-channel-instances', the code for deciding what the > latest version is, is the same for the guix channel and any other > channel. As such, the 'Guix is unavailable' is, currently, not special. Well, ’latest-channel-instances’ relies on ’latest-channel-instance’ which tests ’guix-channel?’, --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (define (guix-channel? channel) "Return true if CHANNEL is the 'guix' channel." (eq? 'guix (channel-name channel))) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- then, for instance, the occurrences are: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- 12 candidates: ./guix/channels.scm:79: guix-channel? ./guix/channels.scm:192:(define (guix-channel? channel) ./guix/channels.scm:199: (if (and (guix-channel? chan) ./guix/channels.scm:424: (when (guix-channel? channel) ./guix/channels.scm:437: (when (guix-channel? channel) ./guix/channels.scm:778: (guix-channel? (channel-instance-channel instance))) ./guix/channels.scm:903: (item (if (guix-channel? channel) ./guix/scripts/pull.scm:775: (match (find guix-channel? channels) ./guix/scripts/pull.scm:788: (remove guix-channel? channels)))) ./gnu/packages/package-management.scm:125: guix-channel? ./gnu/packages/package-management.scm:618: (delay (match (or (find guix-channel? (current-channels)) ./gnu/ci.scm:478: (find guix-channel? channels)) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- And my point is that the Guix channel is special when pulling. Therefore, we could split the cases when the Guix channel is unreachable and when other extra-channels are unreachable; because the impact are different, IMHO. As I pointed earlier in the thread, the main issue is when these extra channels are unreachable; as André have initially reported. Cheers, simon