Re: bug#58417: Installer script no longer works with `yes` utility

2022-10-18 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Mon, 17 Oct 2022 at 17:22, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > What do you mean by 'default | ./install.sh' ? Nothing relevant. :-) > I think Tobias' point > was to have the ability for a newline (RET) to mean either YES or NO, > compared to the curr

Re: bug#58417: Installer script no longer works with `yes` utility

2022-10-17 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi, zimoun writes: > Hi Maxim, > > On dim., 16 oct. 2022 at 21:22, Maxim Cournoyer > wrote: > >> If I understood Tobias, they were not suggesting to make the >> non-interactive installation use case harder/impossible, just to change >> it from 'yes | ./install.sh' to 'yes "" | ./install.sh', w

Re: bug#58417: Installer script no longer works with `yes` utility

2022-10-17 Thread zimoun
Hi Maxim, On dim., 16 oct. 2022 at 21:22, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > If I understood Tobias, they were not suggesting to make the > non-interactive installation use case harder/impossible, just to change > it from 'yes | ./install.sh' to 'yes "" | ./install.sh', which would > give us the freedom

Re: bug#58417: Installer script no longer works with `yes` utility

2022-10-16 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi Simon, zimoun writes: [...] >> Conversely, I'd like to add a comment that does commit to always >> keeping ‘yes '' | bash guix-install.sh’ working, assuming there >> was no other input or detected issues. Also nice for humans in a >> hurry. >> >> Does that seem unreasonable to anyone? >

Re: bug#58417: Installer script no longer works with `yes` utility

2022-10-14 Thread zimoun
Hi Tobias, On Tue, 11 Oct 2022 at 18:26, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > Jonas Freimuth 写道: >> bash -c 'yes | bash guix-install.sh' > > While this happens to work (again) now, that doesn't mean it > always will or should be considered supported. > > We should reserve the right to ask future ques

Re: bug#58417: Installer script no longer works with `yes` utility

2022-10-11 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi again, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: > [Shunted to guix-devel@] > > Jonas Freimuth 写道: >> bash -c 'yes | bash guix-install.sh' > > While this happens to work (again) now, that doesn't mean it always > will or should be considered supported. > > We should reserve the right to ask future questi

Re: bug#58417: Installer script no longer works with `yes` utility

2022-10-11 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: > [Shunted to guix-devel@] > > Jonas Freimuth 写道: >> bash -c 'yes | bash guix-install.sh' > > While this happens to work (again) now, that doesn't mean it always > will or should be considered supported. > > We should reserve the right to ask future questions to

Re: bug#58417: Installer script no longer works with `yes` utility

2022-10-11 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
[Shunted to guix-devel@] Jonas Freimuth 写道: bash -c 'yes | bash guix-install.sh' While this happens to work (again) now, that doesn't mean it always will or should be considered supported. We should reserve the right to ask future questions to which the safe/sane/common answer is ‘no’, wit