From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Cc: "Loïc SIRVIN" <loic.sirvin@inria.fr>,
66647@debbugs.gnu.org,
"Simon Tournier" <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#66647: Installation of RPMs produced by ‘guix pack’ is super slow
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 10:12:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v87vj6yf.fsf@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zfx7qn1q.fsf@gmail.com> (Maxim Cournoyer's message of "Sun, 14 Jan 2024 22:43:13 -0500")
Hi,
Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:
> Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi Inria’s folks, :-)
>>
>> On Sat, 02 Dec 2023 at 18:13, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'd rather we try it with a few more software such as 'dnf' to narrow it
>>> down to just 'yum', or some other issues in our Guix-generated RPM.
>>
>> have you tried with ’dnf’? Is it similarly slow as ’yum’?
>
> I've tried it myself, and it was fast. yum is an alias that invokes dnf
> even on an old obsolete Fedora 37 VM I had available.
>
> We could mention that other package managers than yum should be
> preferred in a "@quotation Note", due to a performance problem when
> handling modern RPMs as those made by Guix; or we could close this and
> wait for yum to have become completely irrelevant (which seems like in a
> year or so, last I checked the RHEL end-of-life dates).
>
> Is someone volunteering to add the note? Or should we close this?
Yeah maybe let’s just a short note warning against old versions of ‘yum’
and close this issue.
Thanks for following up!
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-01-15 9:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-20 10:20 bug#66647: Installation of RPMs produced by ‘guix pack’ is super slow Ludovic Courtès
2023-10-20 15:33 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-10-20 15:34 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-10-22 21:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-10-23 1:35 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-10-23 12:16 ` Simon Tournier
2023-10-23 14:37 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-11-13 12:31 ` Loïc SIRVIN
2023-11-14 11:49 ` Simon Tournier
2023-11-25 14:22 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-11-28 13:31 ` Simon Tournier
2023-12-02 23:13 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2024-01-11 16:57 ` Simon Tournier
2024-01-15 3:43 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2024-01-15 9:12 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2024-01-17 15:21 ` Simon Tournier
2024-01-17 22:21 ` Maxim Cournoyer
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