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bug#41409: “guix pull” should show a progress bar for channel updates
From: |
Ricardo Wurmus |
Subject: |
bug#41409: “guix pull” should show a progress bar for channel updates |
Date: |
Thu, 21 May 2020 22:09:21 +0200 |
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mu4e 1.4.4; emacs 26.3 |
zimoun <address@hidden> writes:
> On Tue, 19 May 2020 at 23:31, Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> 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