Hi, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Hi Brendan, > > Brendan Tildesley <brendan.tildes...@openmailbox.org> skribis: > >> One little annoyance I have is that guix takes every opportunity to >> update the list of substitutes when guix build, guix package -u, etc... >> is run, and fills my terminal with output like: >> >> substitute: updating list of substitutes from >> 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... 100.0% >> substitute: updating list of substitutes from >> 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... 100.0% >> substitute: updating list of substitutes from >> 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... 100.0% >> substitute: updating list of substitutes from >> 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... 100.0% >> ... > > I agree, it’s actually a huge annoyance. It relates to grafts and how > they are implemented; I took a stab at fixing this a while back but the > approach turned out to be (mostly?) misguided: > > https://bugs.gnu.org/22990 > > Would be worth thinking through it again! Maybe we could make a timer variable configurable, so that at least it doesn't try to refresh this information at *every* guix command? Default could be at least one hour. I care about my security, but refreshing this at every command seems pretty wasteful in terms of resources. Maxim
