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

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes <at> inria.fr>
Subject: bug#66647: closed (Re: bug#66647: Installation of RPMs produced
 by ‘guix pack’ is super slow)
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 14:35:02 +0000

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Your bug report

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

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

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 66647 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Loïc SIRVIN <loic.sirvin <at> inria.fr>,
 Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes <at> inria.fr>,
 66647-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#66647: Installation of RPMs produced by ‘guix pack’ is super slow
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 23:32:42 +0900

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

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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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