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From: Attila Lendvai <attila@lendvai.name>
To: Richard Sent <richard@freakingpenguin.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Guix deploy --keep-going equivalent for machine connection failures
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 17:45:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tAH9XPLtq17fVWPZgRaotyKzMRRXgqnriFzzejwl0bj3TZRBTDYSB06mgoewmieu1_58yxF9dQ9cU68FTUMtYeRstvDIqqyTnyjJ4ILrZnA=@lendvai.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <494a6ad05644e3b4c215d2bdaf388811@freakingpenguin.com>

> Another option worth considered is adding a `'can-connection-fail?' (default: #f)` to either `machine` or `machine-ssh-configuration`.

i'd call it `ignore-connection-failure?`, or if we want to ignore all problems for a machine, then `ignore-failure?`.

--keep-going could set the default value for the session, and the machine specific variable would override it.

as for the implementation, i'd use continuable exceptions of a specific type, and then from scheme code users could install handlers that ignore the situation.

avoiding shell scripts these days is a good idea after all.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2024-01-18 17:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-15 22:47 Guix deploy --keep-going equivalent for machine connection failures Richard Sent
2024-01-17  9:43 ` Carlo Zancanaro
2024-01-17 14:52   ` Csepp
2024-01-18 17:45 ` Attila Lendvai [this message]

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