Followup to <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/26175#4>:
guix shall print a hint if building fails due to the package source base name containing a character invalid in a store filename (e.g. "@" or "%"). Currently, when building such a package, one gets an error message like: guix build: error: invalid character `@' in name `[email protected]' guix build should catch this error and print a hint like: You may add a ‘file-name’ field to the package source to work around this. Ludovic Courtès wrote on Sun Sep 08 22:07:10+0200 2019 > Unfortunately it cannot really be caught. I mean, you could catch > ‘&store-protocol-error’ error conditions, but then the error message is > just a string, there’s no error code you can compare against. Example package raising this error: (use-modules (guix packages) (guix download) (guix build-system gnu)) (package (name "kde-l10n-ca-valencia") (version "14.11.80") (source (origin (method url-fetch) (uri (string-append "mirror://kde//Attic/applications/" version "/src/kde-l10n/" "kde-l10n-ca@valencia-" version ".tar.xz")) (sha256 (base32 "1mqadassxcm0m9r1l02m5vr4bbandn48xz8gifvxmb4wiz8i8d0w")))) (build-system gnu-build-system) (synopsis "") (description "") (license "") (home-page "")) -- Regards Hartmut Goebel | Hartmut Goebel | [email protected] | | www.crazy-compilers.com | compilers which you thought are impossible |
