Hi! Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.cour...@inria.fr> writes:
> 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? What? That's crazy. I haven't experimented with it recently, but I used to generate packages for Jami back when it had a closure of 2 GiB and it took many seconds, but not that much. Many RPM is doing extra checks now? -- Thanks, Maxim
