First guix pull is too costly

First guix pull is too costly

[Akib Azmain Turja]

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Hello,

Yesterday, I created a new user in my system.  Then I tried to install a
package, but found that it's not the latest, although I did sudo guix
pull before sudo guix system reconfigure.  So I tried to do guix pull,
but it seems to clone the whole repository from scratch.  But,
unfortunately, it never succeeds due to my faulty network connection.
It progresses somewhat like 5%, 7%, 20%, and my connection fails, and I
have to start again from the beginning.

Is possible to reuse the guix channel from any other user to do the
first guix pull?  Or maybe a shallow clone?

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Akib Azmain Turja

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Re: First guix pull is too costly

[zimoun]

Hi,

Could you avoid to cross-post the exact same message on different lists.

On Tue, 28 Jun 2022 at 15:05, Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Yesterday, I created a new user in my system.  Then I tried to install a
> package, but found that it's not the latest, although I did sudo guix
> pull before sudo guix system reconfigure.  So I tried to do guix pull,
> but it seems to clone the whole repository from scratch.  But,
> unfortunately, it never succeeds due to my faulty network connection.
> It progresses somewhat like 5%, 7%, 20%, and my connection fails, and I
> have to start again from the beginning.
>
> Is possible to reuse the guix channel from any other user to do the
> first guix pull?  Or maybe a shallow clone?

For instance, this exact same message had been sent on guix-devel:

        From: Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org>
        Subject: First guix pull is too costly
        To: guix-devel@gnu.org
        Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 14:04:52 +0600

    https://yhetil.org/guix/87wnd1kycb.fsf@disroot.org


All the best,
simon