ui: Add 'symlink' replacement with better error reporting.

* guix/ui.scm (symlink): New procedure.

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/guix/ui.scm b/guix/ui.scm
index f80ce37146..e717ab713e 100644
--- a/guix/ui.scm
+++ b/guix/ui.scm
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
   #:use-module (ice-9 match)
   #:use-module (ice-9 format)
   #:use-module (ice-9 regex)
+  #:replace (symlink)
   #:export (_
             N_
             P_
@@ -205,6 +206,21 @@ Report bugs to: ~a.") %guix-bug-report-address)
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   (newline))
 
+(define symlink
+  (let ((real-symlink (@ (guile) symlink)))
+    (lambda (target link)
+      "This is a 'symlink' replacement that provides proper error reporting."
+      (catch 'system-error
+        (lambda ()
+          (real-symlink target link))
+        (lambda (key proc fmt args errno)
+          ;; Augment the FMT and ARGS with information about LINK (this
+          ;; information is missing as of Guile 2.0.11, making the exception
+          ;; uninformative.)
+          (apply throw key proc "~A: ~S"
+                 (append args (list link))
+                 errno))))))
+
 (define (string->number* str)
   "Like `string->number', but error out with an error message on failure."
   (or (string->number str)