Fedora distribution build times

[Matt Domsch]

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 11:14:42AM -0500, Genes MailLists wrote:
> On 01/15/2011 10:38 AM, John Reiser wrote:
> 
> > Perhaps it was Fedora 15 (and not Fedora 14) that took 4 days?  See below.
> > 
> >> So it took 2x4x10x96=7680 corehours to build 20000 packages, at an average
> >> of 7680*60/20000=23 coreminutes/package.
> >>
> >> And we get that on average one package takes 6 minutes on a 4 core machine.
> >> That makes sense.
> 
>    Is it possible to break down how much time is in compiling versus
> packaging versus whatever else is involved ?

patches to mock to produce such would be welcome I'm sure.

For my part, I run '/usr/bin/time mock ...' on each package built, and
those times are recorded alongside the output RPMs, for the curious:

[vim-7.3.069-1.fc15.src.rpm]$ cat time.log 
real 253.96
user 211.30
sys 32.11


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