bug#47160: [PATCH] scripts: substitute: Add back some error handling.

[Christopher Baines]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Howdy!
>
> Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> skribis:
>
>> In f50f5751fff4cfc6d5abba9681054569694b7a5c, the way fetch was called within
>> process-substitution was changed.  As call-with-cached-connection actually
>> includes important error handling for the opening of a HTTP request, this
>> change removed some error handling.  This commit adds that back.
>>
>> Fixes <https://bugs.gnu.org/47157>.
>>
>> * guix/scripts/substitute.scm (call-with-cached-connection): New procedure.
>> (with-cached-connection): New syntax rule.
>> (process-substitution): Retry once for some errors when making HTTP requests
>> to fetch substitutes.
>
> [...]
>
>> The call-with-connection-error-handling was added in
>> 20c08a8a45d0f137ead7c05e720456b2aea44402, but that error handling was
>> previously inside of open-connection-for-uri/maybe, which is related
>> to (call-)with-cached-connection which was used in process-substitution, but
>> only actually used with call-with-cached-connection when used in
>> fetch-narinfos.
>>
>> There's some handling for similar errors within with-networking, which is 
>> used
>> within process-substitution.
>>
>> * guix/scripts/substitute.scm (process-substitution): Remove
>> call-with-connection-error-handling call.
>
> Both LGTM, thank you!

Great, pushed as b48204259aa9cad80c5b23a4060e2d796007ec7a.

Note that this won't have any affect on the substitute script for most
users until the guix package is updated to include these changes.

Chris

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