bug#32935: `guix package --verbose` does not produce verbose output

bug#32935: `guix package --verbose` does not produce verbose output

[Leo Famulari]

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On Debian, from Guix commit 9e783d0bf22a7ff965105eb45f6c179a832bbabf,
the --verbose argument to `guix package` doesn't seem to have the
desired effect.

Rather than showing the raw output of whatever builds are being
performed, it just shows the "spinner".

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bug#32935: `guix package --verbose` does not produce verbose output

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Leo,

Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:

> On Debian, from Guix commit 9e783d0bf22a7ff965105eb45f6c179a832bbabf,
> the --verbose argument to `guix package` doesn't seem to have the
> desired effect.
>
> Rather than showing the raw output of whatever builds are being
> performed, it just shows the "spinner".

The ‘--verbose’ option predates the new “quiet” output for ‘guix
package’, so it doesn’t do what you expect, I believe.

I think we need to change the meaning of ‘--verbose’ or repurpose
‘--verbosity’ to choose whether or not build output should be displayed.
We should come up with the same option for all the commands.

Thoughts?

Ludo’.

bug#32935: `guix package --verbose` does not produce verbose output

[Leo Famulari]

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On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 02:50:31PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> The ‘--verbose’ option predates the new “quiet” output for ‘guix
> package’, so it doesn’t do what you expect, I believe.

I didn't follow the development of the UI changes closely, but the
original patch proposal message said that --verbose would allow the
build log to be printed:

"For “guix package” the default behaviour is
to also hide all build output that does not announce progress (unless
“--verbose” is passed) and to let a spinner show progress instead."

https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=32634#5

Did that not make it into the final commit?

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bug#32935: `guix package --verbose` does not produce verbose output

[Ludovic Courtès]

Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:

> On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 02:50:31PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> The ‘--verbose’ option predates the new “quiet” output for ‘guix
>> package’, so it doesn’t do what you expect, I believe.
>
> I didn't follow the development of the UI changes closely, but the
> original patch proposal message said that --verbose would allow the
> build log to be printed:
>
> "For “guix package” the default behaviour is
> to also hide all build output that does not announce progress (unless
> “--verbose” is passed) and to let a spinner show progress instead."
>
> https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=32634#5
>
> Did that not make it into the final commit?

I don’t think so, but it sounds like a good plan, provided we also
provide ‘--quiet’ to do the opposite (and in ‘guix build’, we rename the
current ‘--quiet’ to ‘--silent’.)

Thoughts?

Ludo’.

bug#32935: `guix package --verbose` does not produce verbose output

[Leo Famulari]

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The requested features were added in commit
f1de676ea82c2bed9a435fce37ade0186296bfc9.

Thanks, Ludo!

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