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[PATCH 01/10] guix: import: Print the number of packages at the end.

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From: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
To: Attila Lendvai <attila <at> lendvai.name>
Cc: 55242 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#55242] [PATCH 07/10] guix: import: go: More resilience wrt network errors; add logging.
Date: Tue, 03 May 2022 19:38:19 +0200

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Attila Lendvai schreef op di 03-05-2022 om 17:00 [+0000]:
> a possible scenario: a large import can take several minutes.
> if there's a transient network error, then this way it may finish
> with 99% of the packages, and the rest can be restarted by hand after
> inspecting the log output.

Catching (presumably) transient network errors and reporting them with
'report-network-error' and the like: no problem.

> another scenario is that the importer is simply buggy,

... but if there's some kind of bug, why not just report and fix it?

> and the user gets 99% of the packages imported, and has to do only
> one package by hand.

If the bug is fixed, then no packages need to be done by hand and other
people will benefit as well.  Whereas if it's only for 1% and the
backtrace only happens for recursive import and not for non-recursive
or manual import, then I'd think that the chance that the user actually
reports or fixes the bug decreases a lot.

Greetings,
Maxime.

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