Subject: Re: bug#25137: repeated updating list of substitutes during install

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2016 21:47:49 +0100

Hello,

Dave Love <[email-masked]> skribis:

> During a package install (of guix itself) I see "updating list of
> substitutes" messages repeated through the install, not just at the
> start.  Is that as it should be?  I expected guix to use a recent cached
> version.

It is “normal” yes, but arguably suboptimal:

   https://bugs.gnu.org/22990

I hope we can fix it soonish, but it’s a bit involved.

Ludo’.