Hello! Josselin Poiret <d...@jpoiret.xyz> skribis:
> Julien Lepiller <jul...@lepiller.eu> writes: >> I installed Guix on a new drive, so I tried the installer from the latest >> image. After reviewing the system config, the installer goes to a black >> screen where guix output is shown. Although I can see messages about >> substitutes being updated, and how much will be downloaded, all download >> lines are replaced with a seemingly random number of dots: >> >> substitute: mise à jour des substituts depuis «…»... 100.0 % >> 4.5 Mo seront téléchargés. >> . >> ... >> . >> . >> ...... >> >> Maybe this is related to the translation? > > I agree that this does look pretty bad, but this is because we capture > the guix command output to a log file so that we're able to include it > in the installer dump if anything goes wrong. Guix detects it's not > talking directly to a terminal and so doesn't try to use terminal > specific escape codes to display the download progress. I don't know > how we could improve on that front though, since in general capturing > the guix command output helps with debugging issues. This is a duplicate of <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/55360>, marked as important. I think capturing all the output as-is is overkill; one option I suggested in the bug report above is to syslog specific events of interest during ‘guix system init’. Thoughts? Ludo’.
