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: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 66647 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#66647: Installation of RPMs produced by ‘guix pack’ is super slow
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2023 23:57:16 +0200

Hi!

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

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

[...]

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

[...]

> 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.

They’re targeting CentOS 7 (!).  It’s built with:

  guix pack -f rpm -S /opt/bin=bin -R gmsh

Ludo’.
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