Subject: bug#26201: No notification of cache misses when downloading substitutes

From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 03:46:29 +0100

Hullo,

On 21/03/17 02:44, [email-masked] wrote:
> Just ran guix pull and guix package -u, and found some of the programs
> download VERY slowly (<100kb/s, usually around 95). I asked on #guix
> and lfam mentioned it was probably a cache miss.

Do you mean that *substitutes* existed, but were not yet on
mirror.hydra.gnu.org and so were silently proxied from the much slower
hydra.gnu.org?

Or did Guix fall back to downloading *source* tarballs from some slow
upstream to build locally?

(I've no access to IRC at the mo'.)

Kind regards,

T G-R