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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr>
To: 66647@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#66647: Installation of RPMs produced by ‘guix pack’ is super slow
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2023 12:20:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a5sdvblv.fsf@inria.fr> (raw)

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’.




             reply	other threads:[~2023-10-20 10:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-20 10:20 Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2023-10-20 15:33 ` bug#66647: Installation of RPMs produced by ‘guix pack’ is super slow 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
2024-01-17 15:21                 ` Simon Tournier
2024-01-17 22:21                   ` Maxim Cournoyer
2024-09-13 14:32                     ` Maxim Cournoyer

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