From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: "bdju" <bdju@tilde.team>
Cc: 57315@debbugs.gnu.org, Csepp <raingloom@riseup.net>
Subject: bug#57315: guix upgrade --dry-run output is basically useless
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 11:25:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r10wdasf.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CMBKP9S9Z7P7.3RLKTPPXI982T@masaki> (bdju@tilde.team's message of "Sun, 21 Aug 2022 03:44:53 -0500")
Hi,
"bdju" <bdju@tilde.team> skribis:
> On Sun Aug 21, 2022 at 1:39 AM CDT, Csepp wrote:
>> This should go without saying, but this is pretty bad UX.
>>
>> Is there something that can be done about this? The upgrade process on
>> less powerful machines is pretty awful currently.
> Agreed. Upgrading on Guix can be pretty horrible. Especially when you
> find out you're seemingly the only user of certain packages so you hit a
> bunch of build failures that you would've expected to be found and fixed
> already, and you have to skip and/or report them and redo the upgrades
> repeatedly. On most distros I would upgrade daily without worry, but
> with Guix System I end up putting it off a week or two and trying to
> plan out a time when I don't mind my CPU being maxed out entirely with
> builds and such.
That’s a pretty bad experience that we should improve (my personal
experience is nicer: I upgrade my system and home roughly weekly and
usually without having to build anything locally).
Now, I think it’s a mistake to “expect” build failures “to be found and
fixed already”: you’re part of the process, you too can find, report,
and fix build failures. Of course one has other obligations in life
too, but if each one of us does a small part, it’ll work better.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-31 9:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-21 6:39 bug#57315: guix upgrade --dry-run output is basically useless Csepp
2022-08-21 8:44 ` bdju via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2022-08-31 9:25 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2022-08-31 9:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-08-31 12:29 ` zimoun
2022-09-01 12:05 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-09-01 17:19 ` zimoun
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