Re: What’s next?

[Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>]

Hi,

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hi Brendan,
>
> Brendan Tildesley <brendan.tildesley@openmailbox.org> skribis:
>
>> One little annoyance I have is that guix takes every opportunity to
>> update the list of substitutes when guix build, guix package -u, etc...
>> is run, and fills my terminal with output like:
>>
>> substitute: updating list of substitutes from
>> 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... 100.0%
>> substitute: updating list of substitutes from
>> 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... 100.0%
>> substitute: updating list of substitutes from
>> 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... 100.0%
>> substitute: updating list of substitutes from
>> 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... 100.0%
>> ...
>
> I agree, it’s actually a huge annoyance.  It relates to grafts and how
> they are implemented; I took a stab at fixing this a while back but the
> approach turned out to be (mostly?) misguided:
>
>   https://bugs.gnu.org/22990
>
> Would be worth thinking through it again!

Maybe we could make a timer variable configurable, so that at least it
doesn't try to refresh this information at *every* guix command? Default
could be at least one hour. I care about my security, but refreshing
this at every command seems pretty wasteful in terms of resources.

Maxim