From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mathieu Othacehe Subject: Re: Installer and luks support. Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2018 20:15:29 +0900 Message-ID: <87o99vymr2.fsf@gmail.com> References: <8736r8kcdp.fsf@gmail.com> <874lbn7h65.fsf@gnu.org> <87sgz7zejd.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46071) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gVx3p-0004ua-8I for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Dec 2018 06:15:45 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gVx3k-0003xc-Ak for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Dec 2018 06:15:45 -0500 In-reply-to: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: =?utf-8?Q?G=C3=A1bor?= Boskovits Cc: Guix-devel Hi G=C3=A1bor, > Can't we offer here the option to retry the failed step? i.e. guix system= init > in this case? I mean we have everything set up to simply retry. Does > that make sense? Yes that could be a viable option. We could allow the user to launch again the install command, but we cannot allow him to go back to the installer menu and resume the process wherever. Or, we could keep the menu active but remove some critical steps such as "partitioning" that require umounting/closing. What do you think? Thanks, Mathieu