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[[Category: Winter 2015 SPO600]]

<code>rpm</code> is a package manager used by Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, OpenSuSE, and other Linux distributions. It is also the underlying layer for the <code>yum</code>, <code>dnf</code>, and <code>zypper</code> package management systems.

== Opportunity ==

<code>rpm</code> seems to take significantly longer on some ARM systems than on x86_64 when installing packages. This may point to a good platform-specific, or even a cross-platform, optimization opportunity. It may be an issue with RPM itself, or it may be in a related code base (e.g., the compression system being used).

Please note:
* RPM used on Fedora and RHEL is the 4.* branch (e.g., 4.12), not the 5.* branch
* The optimizations need to be performed in the RPM libraries, used by the rpm command as well as yum, dnf, packagekit, and so forth.

== Source ==

The <code>rpm</code> project is hosted at http://www.rpm.org/

== How to Proceed ==

If you are interested in working on this project, please note your name and contact information here. There should be a maximum of 2 people working on different aspects of this project.

* James Boyer jboyer2@myseneca.ca