Re: Package Installation takes a very long time - normal?

[Niall Dooley <dooleyn@gmail.com>]

OK, so it has finished but unsuccessfully. The last lines of the output were
as follows but none of the packages were installed. To reach this point it
took about 50 mins (it started around 19:55 and finished at 20:43).

The following packages will be installed:
   r-caret 6.0-76 /gnu/store/dybi25l6wr14y3cxw6xazans9vlqjlji-r-caret-6.0-76
   r-ggplot2 2.2.1 /gnu/store/11jzzbgpg67v3yysiv6pyhi27f75dyh1-r-ggplot2-2.2.1
   r-rpart 4.1-11 /gnu/store/rrsr0q4q4n2wjfg26kyg4klk708f675f-r-rpart-4.1-11
   r-e1071 1.6-8 /gnu/store/1r4if4p10rnyj6q073yjir99mpriv1d0-r-e1071-1.6-8
   r-randomforest 4.6-12
/gnu/store/nkqqls9piqzp7pdgfrka1rz005hxj19c-r-randomforest-4.6-12
   r-rocr 1.0-7 /gnu/store/ldn5y4qcz6kxgqkhld69w00lvbiz9682-r-rocr-1.0-7
   r-class 7.3-14 /gnu/store/bqx4c9r3pzmf12vlfy2hdw8hamk8z45n-r-class-7.3-14

guix package: error: profile contains conflicting entries for r-mass:out
guix package: error:   first entry: r-mass@7.3-47:out
/gnu/store/z0nxbji8yrkdl7n6v3wdsd8iqcj39vyk-r-mass-7.3-47
guix package: error:    ... propagated from r-car@2.1-4
guix package: error:    ... propagated from r-caret@6.0-76
guix package: error:   second entry: r-mass@7.3-47:out
/gnu/store/gnv11ncv2h9ij48jwy86wai3xsm7c9s5-r-mass-7.3-47
guix package: error:    ... propagated from r@3.4.0

I had previously installed successfully R and r-catools via Guix.

Ok, I see. And is there something I need to do to only install the pre-built
substitutes and not to install from source?

Niall


On 10 July 2017 at 21:18, Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 08:28:15PM +0100, Niall Dooley wrote:
>> Yes, of course. Plus at the end I meant it wouldn't be the first time in my
>> case of user error.
>>
>> I'm running Guix 20170710.15 as I did a `guix pull' this afternoon so I
>> presume the most recent build. I'm currently trying to install several R
>> related packages (only just started after my first mail) so I'll report back
>> how long it takes. The command I've used is as follows:
>>
>> guix package -i r-caret r-ggplot2 r-rpart r-e1071 r-randomforest r-rocr r-class
>>
>> As I type my terminal window is churning away but occasionally it pauses
>> seemingly doing nothing and then it will again start churning posting the
>> various messages. It's certainly past the initial updating of the
>> substitutes and
>> downloading phase. If I had to guess based on the messages I can catch it is
>> currently installing various *source* packages.
>
> It sounds like you are building some packages from source rather than
> downloading pre-built substitutes.
>
> It's possible these packages have been built on our build farm but not
> yet available on the caching mirror. When you request a substitute from
> the mirror that is not cached, the mirror will return 404 while checking
> if it's available from the build farm.
>
> So, sometimes it's enough to wait a few minutes after the 404 response
> and then try again; the mirror might have populated itself in the
> meantime. Otherwise, we don't have these packages built currently, and
> you'll need to build them yourself.