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 <[email protected]> a écrit : >The user facing guix command has two modes of failure as I have seen, >when doing "guix upgrade" or "guix package -u": > >1. if when downloading substitutes, if downloading fails due to >network conditions, the whole command errors out (exits) > >2. if some software has to be built locally, and if the build fails, >the whole command errors out (exits) > >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 >
