Re: What’s the weather like?

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Hello!

Catonano <catonano@gmail.com> skribis:

> First: having never being involved with binaries publishing I don't know
> what you mean with
> "if the server uses
> ‘guix publish --cache’"

The ‘--cache’ option instructs ‘guix publish’ to maintain a cache of the
archives it publishes (“nars”):

  https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-guix-publish.html

> or with
>
> "We can add multiple -s flags"

One can run “guix weather -s x86_64-linux -s armhf-linux” to get results
for both ARM and x86_64.

> Having said that, I think it would be interesting to have the percentage of
> missing binaries for a specific operation rathher than for the whole server
>
> For example, if I want to reconfigure my system or if I want to create a VM
> image, how many binaries are missing in order to do that ?

You can always use “--dry-run”, which shows a list of what would be
built/downloaded.  The possibly long lists it returns are not as easy to
read as we’d like, though.

Ludo’.