On Mon, 4 May 2020 at 18:23, Marius Bakke wrote: > > Martin Becze writes: > > > Cyclically dependent channels crashes guix pull. Cyclically dependent > > channels probably shouldn't happen, but guix pull probably shouldn't go > > into an endless loop and die either. > > Can you provide a channel configuration that reproduces this? When one channel depends on another one which depends on the first. This /tmp/channel1/ contains this .guix-channel --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (channel (version 0) (dependencies (channel (name channel2-from-channel1) (url "file:///tmp/channel2") (branch "master")))) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- This /tmp/channel2/ contains this .guix-channel --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (channel (version 0) (dependencies (channel (name channel1-from-channel2) (url "file:///tmp/channel1") (branch "master")))) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- And for example, the file 'my-channels.scm' contains: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (list (channel (name 'channel1) (url "file:///tmp/channel1") (branch "master")) (channel (name 'channel2) (url "file:///tmp/channel2") (branch "master")) (channel (name 'guix) (url "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git") (commit "aea6ab2f4ca060e68f8539cd612b0ce088627557"))) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Then guix pull -C /tmp/my-channels.scm will be "Updating ..." for ever. :-) Hope that helps. All the best, simon