lör 2026-03-07 klockan 11:30 +0100 skrev Ludovic Courtès:
> Hello,
> 
> Simon Josefsson <[email protected]> skribis:
> 
> > One concern came up in gnulib discussions about load on git
> > servers:
> > 
> > https://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2026-03/msg00037.html
> > 
> > I think Guix generally prefers mirrors, but I wonder if this could
> > be
> > clarified or improved explicitly related to a tarball->git change?
> 
> I think it should be fine: checkouts, like all other derivation
> outputs,
> are cached and served by the build farms, ci.guix and bordeaux.guix.
> 
> So upstream Git servers are hit when a contributor makes the initial
> package or package update and when the build farms attempt to build
> it
> for the first time, but after that it’s okay.
> 
> WDYT?

I recall 'guix pull' downloading and building a lot of packages, and
even recall that command erroring out due to ftp.gnu.org (or some
similar site) being temporarily unavailable so I worry the above is not
complete.  I don't know the details though, so this could be based on
some old experience.  Sometimes substitution servers aren't reachable,
or (as is common for riscv64) complete, too.

/Simon

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