From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Cc: 53818@debbugs.gnu.org, Xinglu Chen <public@yoctocell.xyz>
Subject: [bug#53818] Improving updaters and ‘guix refresh’
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2022 10:57:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ee44pi4p.fsf_-_@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87leydqohm.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (Nicolas Goaziou's message of "Mon, 14 Feb 2022 19:42:13 +0100")
Hi!
Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> (I’m confused because my understanding of what you first wrote was that
>> Repology had too many false positives to be useful.)
>
> Repology is okay for my use-case because I've gotten accustomed to its
> quirks. I wouldn't recommend it as a fall-back solution for Guix in its
> current form, tho, for the reason above. Does that make sense?
It sure does, thanks for explaining.
> I wrote about the following facts:
> - it is difficult to specify a large number of packages,
> - when you have specified a large number of packages, the processing is
> slow,
> - checking GitHub fails for me.
Alright, I had missed that.
Regarding “specifying many packages”, do examples like these work for
you:
• guix refresh -t elpa
• guix refresh $(guix package -A ^emacs- | cut -f1)
• guix refresh -r emacs-emms
• guix refresh -s non-core -t generic-git
• guix refresh -m packages-i-care-about.scm
If not, what kind of selection mechanism could help? ‘-s’ currently
accepts only two values, but we could augment it.
Regarding slow processing, it very much depends on the updater. For
example, on a warm cache, ‘guix refresh -t gnu’ is relatively fast
thanks to caching:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ time guix refresh -t gnu
gnu/packages/wget.scm:48:13: wget would be upgraded from 1.21.1 to 1.21.2
gnu/packages/tls.scm:86:13: libtasn1 would be upgraded from 4.17.0 to 4.18.0
[...]
real 0m38.314s
user 0m38.981s
sys 0m0.164s
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
It could be that some updaters do many HTTP round trips without any
caching, which slows things down.
[...]
>> Do you have examples of what’s wrong on the UI side?
>
> It has no Emacs interface. Nuff said. ;)
True! :-)
I realize this is going off-topic, but let’s see if we can improve the
existing infrastructure to make it more convenient.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-15 10:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-06 11:50 [bug#53818] [PATCH 0/3] Add Repology updater Xinglu Chen
2022-02-06 12:41 ` Maxime Devos
2022-02-06 15:17 ` Xinglu Chen
2022-02-06 13:00 ` [bug#53818] [PATCH 1/3] git-download: Export <git-reference> Xinglu Chen
2022-02-06 13:00 ` [bug#53818] [PATCH 2/3] import: Add 'repology' updater Xinglu Chen
2022-02-06 13:11 ` Maxime Devos
2022-02-06 15:18 ` Xinglu Chen
2022-02-06 13:13 ` Maxime Devos
2022-02-06 15:26 ` Xinglu Chen
2022-02-06 13:13 ` Maxime Devos
2022-02-06 13:17 ` Maxime Devos
2022-02-06 15:32 ` Xinglu Chen
2022-02-06 13:18 ` Maxime Devos
2022-02-06 15:34 ` Xinglu Chen
2022-02-06 15:36 ` Maxime Devos
2022-02-06 13:19 ` Maxime Devos
2022-02-06 13:23 ` Maxime Devos
2022-02-06 15:41 ` Xinglu Chen
2022-02-06 13:23 ` Maxime Devos
2022-02-06 15:42 ` Xinglu Chen
2022-02-06 13:00 ` [bug#53818] [PATCH 3/3] gnu: xorg-server-xwayland: Set 'repology-name' property Xinglu Chen
2022-02-06 14:15 ` Maxime Devos
2022-02-07 9:06 ` [bug#53818] [PATCH v2 0/7] Add Repology updater Xinglu Chen
2022-02-07 9:06 ` [bug#53818] [PATCH v2 1/7] upstream: Sort list of updaters Xinglu Chen
2022-02-07 9:06 ` [bug#53818] [PATCH v2 2/7] http-client: Make 'http-fetch/cached' take '#:headers' argument Xinglu Chen
2022-02-07 9:06 ` [bug#53818] [PATCH v2 3/7] http-client: 'http-fetch/cached' accepts a string or a <uri> Xinglu Chen
2022-02-07 9:07 ` [bug#53818] [PATCH v2 4/7] import: json: Make 'json-fetch' take '#:cached?' argument Xinglu Chen
2022-02-07 9:44 ` Maxime Devos
2022-02-07 9:07 ` [bug#53818] [PATCH v2 5/7] import: Add 'repology' updater Xinglu Chen
2022-02-07 9:45 ` Maxime Devos
2022-02-07 9:50 ` Maxime Devos
2022-02-08 12:29 ` Xinglu Chen
2022-02-08 12:49 ` Maxime Devos
2022-02-09 12:54 ` Xinglu Chen
2022-02-07 9:07 ` [bug#53818] [PATCH v2 6/7] gnu: xorg-server-xwayland: Set 'repology-name' property Xinglu Chen
2022-02-07 9:07 ` [bug#53818] [PATCH v2 7/7] gnu: xorg-server-xwayland: Prepare for cross-compilation Xinglu Chen
2022-02-09 13:22 ` [bug#53818] [PATCH v3 0/7] Add Repology updater Xinglu Chen
2022-02-09 13:24 ` [bug#53818] [PATCH v3 1/7] upstream: Sort list of updaters Xinglu Chen
2022-02-09 13:24 ` [bug#53818] [PATCH v3 2/7] http-client: Make 'http-fetch/cached' take '#:headers' argument Xinglu Chen
2022-02-09 13:24 ` [bug#53818] [PATCH v3 3/7] http-client: 'http-fetch/cached' accepts a string or a <uri> Xinglu Chen
2022-02-09 13:25 ` [bug#53818] [PATCH v3 4/7] import: json: Make 'json-fetch' take '#:http-fetch' argument Xinglu Chen
2022-02-09 13:25 ` [bug#53818] [PATCH v3 5/7] import: Add 'repology' updater Xinglu Chen
2022-02-09 13:25 ` [bug#53818] [PATCH v3 6/7] gnu: xorg-server-xwayland: Set 'repology-name' property Xinglu Chen
2022-02-09 13:25 ` [bug#53818] [PATCH v3 7/7] gnu: xorg-server-xwayland: Prepare for cross-compilation Xinglu Chen
2022-02-08 22:59 ` [bug#53818] [PATCH 0/3] Add Repology updater Ludovic Courtès
2022-02-09 12:52 ` Xinglu Chen
2022-02-09 14:29 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2022-02-10 18:17 ` Xinglu Chen
2022-02-10 19:30 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2022-02-10 20:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-02-14 10:40 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2022-02-14 16:07 ` Maxime Devos
2022-02-14 16:58 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-02-14 18:42 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2022-02-15 9:57 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2022-02-16 12:43 ` [bug#53818] Improving updaters and ‘guix refresh’ Nicolas Goaziou
2022-02-17 10:35 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-02-17 11:17 ` zimoun
2022-02-18 10:28 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2022-03-03 21:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
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