Re: Is there a post or blog on how to convert from a distro to guix losslessly

2023-10-13 Thread Josh Marshall
One thing which could be done is to use https://repology.org/ to map currently installed packages from detected package managers to available packages in Guix and inform the user about missing packages. That could help. On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 9:18 AM Josh Marshall wrote: > > Very helpful! > > On

Re: Architecture to reduce download time when pulling multiple packages – historic success with magnet URLs, BTIHs, & Aria2c!

2023-10-13 Thread JRHaigh+ML . GNU . Guix--- via
Hi Josh, At Z-0400=2023-10-13Fri12:36:01, Josh Marshall sent: > This is to parallelize connections which should never hurt downloading but > can help. Mirroring would be parallelizing for providing packages, what I > want to implement is to parallelize obtaining packages. Server side vs > cli

Re: Architecture to reduce download time when pulling multiple packages

2023-10-13 Thread Josh Marshall
This is to parallelize connections which should never hurt downloading but can help. Mirroring would be parallelizing for providing packages, what I want to implement is to parallelize obtaining packages. Server side vs client side. On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 6:18 AM Christopher Baines wrote: > >

Re: Architecture to reduce download time when pulling multiple packages

2023-10-13 Thread Christopher Baines
Josh Marshall writes: > I just went and installed everything with texlive in the name. A few > were less than 1KB, a few over 1GB. Download speed peaked at less > than 3MB/s. My Internet is a fiber connection with symmetric gigabit. > However, I think picking at this info is the wrong tack.