"server is somewhat slow" error is more annoying than helpful

So for the past several months I have been getting errors like these:

```

guix substitute: warning: while fetching https://ci.guix.gnu.org/nar/lzip/k9wmrk5m91599lk8gd4rc7h4df642qw0-curl-7.74.0:server is somewhat slow

guix substitute: warning: try `--no-substitutes' if the problem persists

guix substitute: error: connect*: Connection timed out

substitution of /gnu/store/k9wmrk5m91599lk8gd4rc7h4df642qw0-curl-7.74.0 failed

```

These errors are more annoying than helpful to me. There's nothing I can do about the servers, and the ISP I have is the best I can get with my budget (I already have two ISPs, and the one I use for Guix is the one that is more reliable, believe me).

At the least, there should be some way to downgrade this from a "connection timed out" error to just keep on keeping on. Or at least to tell the tool to just keep retrying the download for some specified number of times before actually giving up (in practice 2 or 3 times is enough on my part of the Internet).

Thanks

raid5atemyhomework

Hi,

Am Donnerstag, den 30.09.2021, 15:17 +0000 schrieb raid5atemyhomework:

The warning and the error are not necessarily related. You can get the

warning without the error, it's just there to tell you that fetching

data from the substitute server might be slower than building from

source if your CPU is particularly fast.

This issue has existed before the warning you mention. Builds also

still fail if you e.g. get a TLS error partway (happens to me more

often than I'd like). It is IIRC a very well-known bug, though on the

top of my head I can't give you a number.

Regards