Hi, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.courno...@gmail.com> skribis:
> Simon Tournier <zimon.touto...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Hi Inria’s folks, :-) >> >> On Sat, 02 Dec 2023 at 18:13, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.courno...@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’.