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I work at an organization where I need proxies. I don't know much about the network security and how it is set up, but I do know that it makes adding and building Julia packages extremely slow. Is there some way to speed this up or am I fundamentally limited by whatever network bottlenecks my organization has in place? Can I speed up the way Julia interfaces with Github to make the package download process faster?

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Check first is using a custom local metadata repository would be enough to speed up the process.
See "Custom METADATA Repository"

By default, Julia assumes you will be using the official METADATA.jl repository for downloading and installing packages. You can also provide a different metadata repository location.

That means creating a local Git repo that you can access without needing your proxy.

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  • The problem with this is that I still have to call git pull whenever I would like to update any of the packages. So in the end I have to go through the firewall. – v2v1 Sep 26 '17 at 20:31
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    @xcski I agree. I generally try to use an artifactory repository like artifactory (https://www.jfrog.com/open-source/) to mirror the remote resource, but here https://pkg.julialang.org/ is *not* supported. – VonC Sep 26 '17 at 20:35