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

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2023 23:57:16 +0200

Hi!

Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> writes:

[...]

>> However, installing those RPMs takes a lot of time.  For example,
>> installing the RPM for ‘gmsh’ (closure: 596 MiB; thousands of files)
>> takes ~45mn.

[...]

> What is the OS thy install on?  How do they generate the gmsh package
> exactly?  Perhaps I still have a RPM-based distro VM to try it with.

They’re targeting CentOS 7 (!).  It’s built with:

  guix pack -f rpm -S /opt/bin=bin -R gmsh

Ludo’.