Re: guix import hackage fails with errors, and failed tests

[zimoun]

Hi,

On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 at 04:19, c4t0 <c4t0@riseup.net> wrote:

> I'm having problems with 'guix import' in my environment:
> $guix import hackage -t ghc-events
> Syntax error: unexpected token : common (at line 44, column 0)
> Syntax error: unexpected end of input
> guix import: error: failed to download cabal file for package 'ghc-events'

Probably because the cabal file is bad formed.  Or better worded,
because the Guix cabal parser fails to parse the line 44 starting by
'common'.
Well, give a look at (guix import cabal).

> so I cloned guix, and:
>
> guix environment guix --pure --ad-hoc help2man git strace --container

Somehow, --container implies --pure. :-)


HTH,
simon