Hi, Over the last week I tried to fetch substitutes with no success from hydra.gnu.org. It always showed the error "server is unresponsive". However, the nar packages get downloaded with wget.
So, I removed the timeout with the attached patch and the substitute downloads are working again. This time I observed that the speed at which the substitute-binary.scm downloads the nar file is far low than when the same file is downloaded through wget. I haven't done extensive testing on this to confirm firmly, but it looks like the http-fetch implementation is not efficient. Can anyone confirm this? - Sree
From 50417a01f71f973002171dcd9e5457721b3487ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sree Harsha Totakura <sreehar...@totakura.in>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:56:37 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] - remove timeout
---
guix/scripts/substitute-binary.scm | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/guix/scripts/substitute-binary.scm b/guix/scripts/substitute-binary.scm
index 901b3fb..ec620c5 100755
--- a/guix/scripts/substitute-binary.scm
+++ b/guix/scripts/substitute-binary.scm
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ provide."
;; sudo tc qdisc del dev eth0 root
(let ((port #f))
(with-timeout (if (or timeout? (guile-version>? "2.0.5"))
- %fetch-timeout
+ 0
0)
(begin
(warning (_ "while fetching ~a: server is unresponsive~%")
--
1.7.10.4
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