GNU bug report logs - #66647
Installation of RPMs produced by ‘guix pack’ is super slow

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes <at> inria.fr>

Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2023 10:22:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Done: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>

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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes <at> inria.fr>
Cc: 66647 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#66647: Installation of RPMs produced by ‘guix pack’ is super slow
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2023 11:34:22 -0400

Hi Ludo,

Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes <at> inria.fr> writes:

> 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?

What is the OS thy install on?  How do they generate the gmsh package
exactly?  Perhaps I still have a RPM-based distro VM to try it with.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim
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