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?
