Hi Guix! When a command such as guix time-machine pulls a channel, if there is invalid scheme code in, say, the .guix-authorizations file, the error message reported to the user doesn't make it clear where the problem is.
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- gibraltar :( temp$ guix time-machine -C channels.scm -- describe Updating channel 'pita-packs' from Git repository at 'https://codeberg.org/JetpackJackson/guix-pita-packs.git'... Authenticating channel 'pita-packs', commits 2970fc3 to 429703d (3 new commits)... ▕███████████████████████████████████████████████████▉ ▏ice-9/boot-9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception: #<unknown port>:5:1: unexpected end of input while searching for: ) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- In this case, pita-pack's .guix-authorizations file is missing ending parenthesis. This error message should be improved to say a) What channel is causing the problem b) What file we're parsing that threw the error See some of the chat log here: https://logs.guix.gnu.org/guix/2024-06-28.log. -- Take it easy, Richard Sent Making my computer weirder one commit at a time.
