Do you have "General.tar.gz" in your `.julia/registries/`?

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I can think of three use cases:

  1. They’re necessary for using registries that aren’t served by any package server.
  2. If you absolutely must have zero delay in what you can see in the registry then they’re also probably the only option, although the PKG_SERVER_REGISTRY_PREFERENCE=eager export is probably good enough 99% of the time.
  3. It’s also the easiest way to “checkout” a specific historical registry state and to pin a registry at that state.

I think 1 is unfixable—if something isn’t available via package server then it has to be available via git. 2 is probably already solved as well as it can be, although we could always work to reduce latency of publishing new registry hashes, but it’s already quite fast. 3 could definitely be improved, eg by allowing installation of a specific registry tree via the pkg REPL and also allowing pinning and unpinning a specific version.

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