From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: 46877@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46877: Guix assumes ideal network exists, does not
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2021 14:55:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YD6YFsxzzX7Jy6Ay@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eegxms7h.fsf@nckx>
On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 05:32:50PM +0100, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix wrote:
> Guixfriends,
>
> Errors like the one below are omnipresent. It's a problem.
>
> Expecting an ever-increasing (16k+?) number of requests to finish flawlessly
> or aborting a very long (20+ minutes here) process is doomed.
>
> We don't seem to have a plan forward (I include myself!). Looking at other
> package managers, a blunt ‘retry a finite number of times’ seems common.
> Guix's ‘pretend that "transient" is a magic powerword’ approach less so.
>
> What do people think? Does the heavy pipelining complicate matters?
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> ~ $ guix weather --substitute-urls=https://guix.tobias.gr
I sometimes see similar failures with `guix weather`.
To clarify, do you also see them when substituting? Or just when
checking for substitutes?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-02 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-02 16:32 bug#46877: Guix assumes ideal network exists, does not Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-03-02 19:55 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2021-03-02 20:00 ` zimoun
2021-03-02 20:18 ` zimoun
2021-03-10 11:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-03-10 22:04 ` zimoun
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