Hello colleague,
On Tuesday, August 16, 2016 at 5:41:47 PM UTC+2, Jan Hlavacek wrote:
>
> They have recently installed a whole bunch of packages system wide, so
> that they are available in all projects without having to install them
> locally. However, when I try to use a package from one of their free
> projects, there is a problem. Free projects by default do not have internet
> access. When loading a Julia package, for example
>
> using Gadfly
>
> the package will be recompiled, and then Julia tries to go to github and
> download METADATA.jl, which takes for ever before it times out. Then,
> probably because of the missing metadata, some other errors are reported.
> Finally, the package gets loaded and can be used. The messages are as
> follows:
>
> INFO: Precompiling module Gadfly...
> INFO: Initializing package repository
> /projects/41eb44d2-462c-4af8-80a5-ac0c9cad99dd/.julia/v0.4
> INFO: Cloning METADATA from git://github.com/JuliaLang/METADATA.jl
> fatal: unable to connect to github.com:
> github.com[0: 192.30.253.112]: errno=Connection timed out
> ...
>
> Does Julia really need internet access just to load a package? Is there
> any way to work around it?
>
No. And yes.
Looks like the local julia installation has identified a missing package
repository and then tried to get METADATA into that. The place where julia
expects a package repository can be configured. In your case the setup was
incorrect.
