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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Cc: 41409@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41409: “guix pull” should show a progress bar for channel updates
Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 22:09:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87367tdp8u.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ3okZ1LnAsiKyqHRUDX5P=petQSj-5K19JhtPXHbDm9=jfpSQ@mail.gmail.com>


zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, 19 May 2020 at 23:31, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:
>
>> When I run “guix pull” (or “guix time-machine”) I see this message
>>
>>    Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'...
>>
>> followed by disconcerting silence.  I can’t tell if it’s doing
>> something, nor can I see what the progress is.
>
> Most of the time is fetching from network so if you have a good
> network connection, this step is not long enough to be disconcerting.
> :-)

It can take several seconds or even over a few minutes when fetching
from multiple channels.  For what it’s worth I got annoyed waiting for
“guix pull” on ci.guix.gnu.org, which has a pretty decent network
connection (even though users on the outside cannot see it this way due
to the firewall). 

-- 
Ricardo




  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-21 20:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-19 21:30 bug#41409: “guix pull” should show a progress bar for channel updates Ricardo Wurmus
2020-05-21 11:00 ` zimoun
2020-05-21 20:09   ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2020-05-21 22:29     ` zimoun
2020-05-24 21:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-05  7:45   ` bug#39260: " Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-12 21:30     ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-26 22:52       ` bug#39260: " Ludovic Courtès

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