Qubes Update Doesn't Show Progress

[deeplow]

Continuing the discussion from Understanding "Qubes Updater":

@qun

By the way… it’s rather funny if you go to detailes while updating some VMs… there just NO details, just something like “updating the XYZ-VM”. It would be nice really to have some details, just as via terminal.

[enmus]

I think you overlooked to click the “Details” in the middle left Qubes Update window tool

[qun]

Thanks for splitting!

The thing is, details show the result, but not the progress. The “progress” is just like “updating dom0”. It would be nice to see, whats going on and how much % are already done. Sure, there are much important things to do. It would be just a nice extra, for better understanding.

[deeplow]

The reason why it’s like that is because the updater uses a technology called saltstack which is known for lack of feedback to the user while things are progressing.

This is something the developers are aware of, I think (couldn’t find the associated issue, though).

[qun]

@deeplow

The reason why it’s like that is because the updater uses a technology called saltstack which is known for lack of feedback to the user while things are progressing.

ah, ok, understand.
Thanks!