Subject: Re: bug#42247: Channel news raise error on `guix pull`

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 00:26:39 +0200

Hi,

Pierre Neidhardt <[email-masked]> skribis:

> However, guix pull chokes on it:
>
> (repl-version 0 0)
> (exception unbound-variable (value #f) (value "Unbound variable: ~S") (value (channel-news)) (value #f))

This suggests that the ‘news.scm’ file of your channel is being picked
up and evaluated as if it were a module, which it’s not.

The solution is to rename it to, say, ‘news.txt’, or to move the actual
modules to a sub-directory and specify that in ‘.guix-channel’ (info
"(guix) Channels").

HTH!

Ludo’.