* bug#41409: “guix pull” should show a progress bar for channel updates
@ 2020-05-19 21:30 Ricardo Wurmus
2020-05-21 11:00 ` zimoun
2020-05-24 21:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
0 siblings, 2 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Ricardo Wurmus @ 2020-05-19 21:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 41409
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.
Would be nice to have a progress bar or at least a spinner.
--
Ricardo
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* bug#41409: “guix pull” should show a progress bar for channel updates
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
2020-05-24 21:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
1 sibling, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: zimoun @ 2020-05-21 11:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ricardo Wurmus; +Cc: 41409
Hi Ricardo,
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.
:-)
In addition to this whislist, it appears to me the same for "Computing
Guix derivation", even there is something moving.
All the best,
simon
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* bug#41409: “guix pull” should show a progress bar for channel updates
2020-05-21 11:00 ` zimoun
@ 2020-05-21 20:09 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-05-21 22:29 ` zimoun
0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Ricardo Wurmus @ 2020-05-21 20:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zimoun; +Cc: 41409
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
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* bug#41409: “guix pull” should show a progress bar for channel updates
2020-05-21 20:09 ` Ricardo Wurmus
@ 2020-05-21 22:29 ` zimoun
0 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: zimoun @ 2020-05-21 22:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ricardo Wurmus; +Cc: 41409
On Thu, 21 May 2020 at 22:09, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:
> 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).
Wow! Few minutes. To me, each channel (Gitlab, GitHub, etc.) takes a
couple of seconds -- even with a poor Wifi connection -- and the
longest is Guix from Savannah: and "slow" as everything under gnu.org.
I feel much more frustrated by "Computing Guix derivation" which takes
ages on my machine and I never know if the computations are at 20% or
80% or whatever.
And I never pull on my laptop the current HEAD of master otherwise I
am waiting between 10 and 30 minutes building all the derivations
because they are not substituable yet; well I pull 1 or 2 weeks
behind.
Well, a spinner for the Git updating part could improve use cases:
first pull, long period between 2 pulls, firewall, etc..
On the other hand, an European mirror of guix.git could help too, IMHO.
Cheers,
simon
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* bug#41409: “guix pull” should show a progress bar for channel updates
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
@ 2020-05-24 21:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-05 7:45 ` bug#39260: " Ludovic Courtès
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From: Ludovic Courtès @ 2020-05-24 21:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ricardo Wurmus; +Cc: 41409
Hi,
Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
> 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.
For the record, the main missing piece is in Guile-Git, which does not
yet provide bindings to the progress-report thingie for fetch
operations.
Ludo’.
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