One example: ng0@shadowwalker ~$ guix import pypi hyperkitty
Starting download of /tmp/guix-file.yrqmcv >From >https://pypi.python.org/packages/47/2d/cc2adf4bc0ed7bb4189b3146dde921c9a6ecc33f0f87c96c744d89bab154/HyperKitty-1.0.3.tar.gz... …1.0.3.tar.gz 1.5MiB 1.1MiB/s 00:01 [####################] 100.0% tar: HyperKitty-1.0.3/requirements.txt: Not found in archive tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors guix import: warning: 'tar xf' failed with exit code 512 (package (name "python-hyperkitty") (version "1.0.3") When you look at the contained setup.py of hyperkitty, it has this defined in setup.py. # Requirements REQUIRES = [ etc etc I've seen this in some variations. The python importer should be extended to include these not very unusual cases. -- ng0
