On +2024-04-11 15:10:56 +0200, Rostislav Svoboda wrote:
> > ./guix-install.sh --uninstall
> > [...]
> > That sounds dangerous
>
> Yeah a bit.
>
> > -- what about putting all the deletions
> > in a TAR_DICT/TAR_FILE_NAME.tgz as a default, with suitable
> > default alternative commands for various capitalized names
> > in a (bash) select menu -- which could also include
> > "Just do it, I know what --uninstall does")
>
> Eeeh? I don't understand what you mean.
>
Sorry, I should have explained.
I just wanted a simple way to save /exactly/ what uninstall would delete.
so it wouldn't be "irrevocable," in case the uninstall is too eager about its
job ;)
A dry run of that size would be a scrolling blur, I think, and not much use
unless
captured, and then it would take a lot of boring unreliable reading before you
could
decide for sure that it was ok to do the uninstall.
Maybe guix pack could make a tarball of exactly what uninstall would delete,
e.g.,
guix pack --uninstall-victim-files
with options of where to write it.
> Nevertheless, `./guix-install.sh --dry-run --uninstall` would be nice.
> However the script is over 800 lines long. In bash! :-(
> IMO before increasing script complexity with a new feature, we should
> rewrite it to some reasonable language, preferably Guile Scheme. Or at
> least Python.
>
Well, guix pack is already scheme, right? Why couldn't it invoke uninstall after
safely having completed packing the uninstall-victim-files ?
WDYT? Simon? Ludo? Anyone? :)
> Cheers Bost
--
Regards,
Bengt Richter
