Subject: bug#66647: closed (Re: bug#66647: Installation of RPMs produced by ‘guix pack’ is super slow)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 14:35:02 +0000

Your bug report

#66647: Installation of RPMs produced by ‘guix pack’ is super slow

which was filed against the guix package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#66647: Installation of RPMs produced by ‘guix pack’ is super slow
From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
To: Simon Tournier <[email-masked]>
Cc: Loïc SIRVIN <[email-masked]>, Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 23:32:42 +0900
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Hi,

It's been more than half a year and the note hasn't reached our
manual. With time passing, this is becoming less and less relevant given
yum was already alias to from dnf in Fedora 37.

Closing.

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Thanks,
Maxim

Subject: Installation of RPMs produced by ‘guix pack’is super slow
From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2023 12:20:44 +0200
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Hello!

I made friends at work when I told them we could provide an RPM for any
modern package to install on their old RPM-based distro.  :-)

However, installing those RPMs takes a lot of time.  For example,
installing the RPM for ‘gmsh’ (closure: 596 MiB; thousands of files)
takes ~45mn.

Is there something about the metadata generated by (guix rpm) that could
be improved, or are we hitting some limitation of the RPM format or
implementation?

Thanks,
Ludo’.