GNU bug report logs - #34184
Nitpick on reconfigure message: Installing for i386-pc platform.

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Package: guix;

Reported by: swedebugia <swedebugia <at> riseup.net>

Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 21:23:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 34184 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu>
Cc: swedebugia <swedebugia <at> riseup.net>, 34184 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34184: Nitpick on reconfigure message: Installing for i386-pc
 platform.
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 23:27:26 +0100

Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu> writes:

> Le 23 janvier 2019 22:12:58 GMT+01:00, swedebugia <swedebugia <at> riseup.net> a écrit :
>>"Installing for i386-pc platform.
>>Installation finished. No error reported."
>>
>>After reboot:
>>  $ uname -a
>>Linux komputilo 4.20.3-gnu #1 SMP 1 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
>>The i386 is technically incorrect according to
>>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80386 and
>>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64
>>
>>I think we should drop the line and keep "Installation finished. No
>>error reported."
>
> Hi, this message is actually from grub-install and is perfectly
> correct: it means it's intalling in legacy (bios) mode. "No error
> reported" is also from grub and is very confusing…

Maybe we should

1) prefix messages from other tools with the name of the tool, and
2) hide these tool messages by default behind descriptive messages like
“installing bootloader”

What do you think?

--
Ricardo
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