bug#65549: Issue during "guix pull"

[Philip Kaludercic]

Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 27 Aug 2023 at 09:28, Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix 
> <bug-guix@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>>
>>> ice-9/boot-9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception:
>>> ERROR:
>>>   1. &http-get-error:
>>>       uri: #<<uri> scheme: https userinfo: #f host: "ci.guix.gnu.org" port: 
>>> #f path: "/nar/lzip/i4c6yd0n7yhw2qi5217z62zb9n023dk7-automake-1.16.5" 
>>> query: #f fragment: #f>
>>>       code: 504
>>>       reason: "Gateway Time-out"
>>
>> It looks like you have connectivity issues with ci.guix.gnu.org.  You
>> might want to retry, or enable other mirrors for substitutes instead,
>> since ci.guix.gnu.org blocks some territories (not because of Guix
>> policy, but rather because of where the server is hosted).
>
> Well, it’s weird that many people have often connectivity issues with
> ci.guix.gnu.org.  I mean, yes a retry usually makes it pass but as
> reported in this thread:
>
>     collection of “guix pull“ bug reports
>     Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
>     Wed, 23 Aug 2023 18:17:20 +0200
>     id:86jztl20of.fsf@gmail.com
>     https://yhetil.org/guix/86jztl20of.fsf@gmail.com
>     https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2023-08
>
> all these failures with “guix pull“ look like the symptom with something
> unexpected on server side.  Although obviously we can tweak on client
> side for some automatic retries.
>
> These transient failures are very hard to tackle because they are
> transient. :-)

Is it not possible to detect connectivity issues and print a regular
error message, instead of instructing the user to report a bug?

>
> Cheers,
> simon