Re: Borg takes forever to upgrade

[Christopher Lemmer Webber]

HiPhish writes:

> On Thursday, 14 March 2019 21:31:15 CET you wrote:
>> It's probably stuck in the tests:
>> 
>> https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/4350
>> 
>> Whether or not it gets stuck seems host-specific. It works on some
>> machines and not others. I recommend just waiting a while for a
>> substitute to become available.
> Sounds plausible. I'll just wait then, it's not like I need the update 
> urgently.
>
>> I don't want to disable the tests here until we understand what's going
>> on — otherwise we might miss some real issue in how the software is
>> being built on the machines where the tests get stuck.
> Yes, sounds reasonable.

I'll note that I hit this problem today too.  I did a guix package
upgrade and came back about 6 hours later to see what packages had been
upgraded.  Sadly it had spent all day spinning its wheels on Borg. :(