‘guix refresh -u’ stops at the first failure to determine releases

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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 1 Jul 2022 15:54
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Starting from commit 53b9c27aa59bebf955f0aa24fef60a101480ef5c (a fix for

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$ ./pre-inst-env guix refresh -t cran r-a3 r-googlesheets r-a4 -u
gnu/packages/bioconductor.scm:9233:2: warning: no updater for r-a4
guix refresh: warning: failed to retrieve package information from https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/googlesheets/DESCRIPTION: 404 (Not Found)
guix refresh: error: updater failed to determine available releases for r-googlesheets

That is, ‘guix refresh -u’ stops on the first failure (in this case
‘r-a3’ is not processed). That makes it hard to use for mass updates as
in ‘guix refresh -t cran -u’.

(Reported by Ricardo on #guix.)

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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 1 Jul 2022 23:55
Re: bug#56338: ‘guix refresh -u ’ stops at the first failure to determine releases
(address . 56338-done@debbugs.gnu.org)(name . Ricardo Wurmus)(address . rekado@elephly.net)
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Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr> skribis:

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> Starting from commit 53b9c27aa59bebf955f0aa24fef60a101480ef5c (a fix for
> <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/55987>), we get:
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> $ ./pre-inst-env guix refresh -t cran r-a3 r-googlesheets r-a4 -u
> gnu/packages/bioconductor.scm:9233:2: warning: no updater for r-a4
> guix refresh: warning: failed to retrieve package information from https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/googlesheets/DESCRIPTION: 404 (Not Found)
> guix refresh: error: updater failed to determine available releases for r-googlesheets

Fixed in b512dadfd603869ac009a432b56f55945841cce0.

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