bug#43739: guix archive --export broken on foreign distro

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:

> Lars-Dominik Braun <ldb@leibniz-psychology.org> skribis:
>
>> as discussed on IRC [1][2] `guix archive --export` is currently broken on
>> foreign distributions. It fails with the error message:
>>
>>      guix archive: error: corrupt input while restoring archive from 
>> #<closed: file 7f27c396e150>
>>
>> strace reveals `guix authenticate` prints a message to stderr, which the
>> guix-daemon does not expect:
>>
>>      guile: warning: failed to install locale
>
> Specifically, the problem occurs after the change in
> 64cf660f872fb7aaf0d2b463e45b4c756297f743: on the first call to
> ‘readAuthenticateReply’, the daemon gets a “g” (from the warning above)
> instead of a digit as the protocol expects.

This is fixed by 880fe019ae64df37815bbdb1a22305f99dae759d from
<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/43737>.

Closing.

Thanks,
Ludo’.