On Thu, 21 May 2020 at 22:09, Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> wrote:
> It can take several seconds or even over a few minutes when fetching > from multiple channels. For what it’s worth I got annoyed waiting for > “guix pull” on ci.guix.gnu.org, which has a pretty decent network > connection (even though users on the outside cannot see it this way due > to the firewall). Wow! Few minutes. To me, each channel (Gitlab, GitHub, etc.) takes a couple of seconds -- even with a poor Wifi connection -- and the longest is Guix from Savannah: and "slow" as everything under gnu.org. I feel much more frustrated by "Computing Guix derivation" which takes ages on my machine and I never know if the computations are at 20% or 80% or whatever. And I never pull on my laptop the current HEAD of master otherwise I am waiting between 10 and 30 minutes building all the derivations because they are not substituable yet; well I pull 1 or 2 weeks behind. Well, a spinner for the Git updating part could improve use cases: first pull, long period between 2 pulls, firewall, etc.. On the other hand, an European mirror of guix.git could help too, IMHO. Cheers, simon
