Has anyone had this problem?
This is on my personal laptop, which is on a somewhat old version of macOS (version 10.13.6).
There have been various reports with similar problems. One possible solution: try to switch over to the new Pkg server infrastructure as recommended here:
There also have been various reports that virus checkers slow down registry updates. Excluding .julia/registries from the monitored directories appears to help sometimes. (I did not in my case [MacOS], but things got a lot faster in v1.6 for me).
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This did the trick. For future reference, all I did was delete the .julia directory and then add a new package, which had the effect of deleting the old git-cloned General registry and installing a new version of the registry from the Pkg server.
I suppose I probably could have been less disruptive and only removed the registry instead of the whole .julia directory, with something like pkg> registry rm General.
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I was having this issue on my old Linux laptop. pkg> registry rm General followed by pkg> registry add General did the trick, fetching is fast again!
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