Re: guix system reconfigure compiles everything too long

[Marco van Hulten]

Hi—

On Thu, 20 Sep 2018 06:31:27 +0000 znavko wrote:
> Hello! I have been running `guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm`
> before, and it finished after 1 or 2 hours. Now it is working more
> than 6 hours on Lenovo G50-30. It compiles everything
> http://0x0.st/sxda.png http://0x0.st/sxnm.png even icecat
> http://0x0.st/sx51.png I want it uses binaries, do not need to
> compile sources. Cannot understand, why adding (packages (cons*
> icecat)) produces compilation process of icecat? Please, what is
> wrong?

I could imagine that there is nothing wrong with your system
configuration but that the build servers have not build the latest
versions of the packages yet.

My experience is very mixed in how much needs to be compiled when doing
a system upgrade.  In the future I'd like to use a central build server
in my local network (and then I'd probably mount /store over NFS).

—Marco