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 <ludovic.courtes <at> inria.fr>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Installation of RPMs produced by ‘guix pack’
 is super slow
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2023 12:20:44 +0200

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’.
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