zimoun <zimon.touto...@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, 19 May 2020 at 23:31, Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> wrote:
>
>> When I run “guix pull” (or “guix time-machine”) I see this message
>>
>>    Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at 
>> 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'...
>>
>> followed by disconcerting silence.  I can’t tell if it’s doing
>> something, nor can I see what the progress is.
>
> Most of the time is fetching from network so if you have a good
> network connection, this step is not long enough to be disconcerting.
> :-)

It can take several seconds or even over a few minutes when fetching
from multiple channels.  For what it’s worth I got annoyed waiting for
“guix pull” on ci.guix.gnu.org, which has a pretty decent network
connection (even though users on the outside cannot see it this way due
to the firewall). 

-- 
Ricardo



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