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-rw-r--r--guix/import/cran.scm14
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/guix/import/cran.scm b/guix/import/cran.scm
index 123abfe7ea..463a25514e 100644
--- a/guix/import/cran.scm
+++ b/guix/import/cran.scm
@@ -23,8 +23,10 @@
#:use-module ((ice-9 rdelim) #:select (read-string))
#:use-module (srfi srfi-1)
#:use-module (srfi srfi-26)
+ #:use-module (srfi srfi-34)
#:use-module (srfi srfi-41)
#:use-module (ice-9 receive)
+ #:use-module (web uri)
#:use-module (guix combinators)
#:use-module (guix http-client)
#:use-module (guix hash)
@@ -128,10 +130,18 @@ package definition."
(define (fetch-description base-url name)
"Return an alist of the contents of the DESCRIPTION file for the R package
-NAME, or #f on failure. NAME is case-sensitive."
+NAME, or #f in case of failure. NAME is case-sensitive."
;; This API always returns the latest release of the module.
(let ((url (string-append base-url name "/DESCRIPTION")))
- (description->alist (read-string (http-fetch url)))))
+ (guard (c ((http-get-error? c)
+ (format (current-error-port)
+ "error: failed to retrieve package information \
+from ~s: ~a (~s)~%"
+ (uri->string (http-get-error-uri c))
+ (http-get-error-code c)
+ (http-get-error-reason c))
+ #f))
+ (description->alist (read-string (http-fetch url))))))
(define (listify meta field)
"Look up FIELD in the alist META. If FIELD contains a comma-separated