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Re: guix command line behavior upon network failure or package build fai
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Julien Lepiller |
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Re: guix command line behavior upon network failure or package build failure |
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Sun, 16 Apr 2023 08:56:58 +0200 |
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Failing earlier might still be friendlier, as guix will not be working for
nothing. When guix upgrade fails, nothing is upgraded, after all.
Guix has the --keep-going option you can use to continue downloading/building
packages unrelated to the failure.
Le 16 avril 2023 08:48:41 GMT+02:00, Andy Tai <atai@atai.org> a écrit :
>The user facing guix command has two modes of failure as I have seen,
>when doing "guix upgrade" or "guix package -u":
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>1. if when downloading substitutes, if downloading fails due to
>network conditions, the whole command errors out (exits)
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>2. if some software has to be built locally, and if the build fails,
>the whole command errors out (exits)
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>is it possible to have the guix command keeps going and finishes other
>works that may be unrelated to the failure, and finally prints out
>messages about the packages that failed to update? This would be
>more user friendly and makes guix more usable for end users. Thanks
>