Hi. After switching to Fedora 40 I noticed that sudo dnf --refresh up takes more time that usual if update contains a new kernel.
e.g.
sudo dnf --refresh up
...
Transaction Summary
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Install 5 Packages
Upgrade 18 Packages
Remove 5 Packages
Total download size: 252 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/23): kernel-16k-6.8.9-405.asahi.fc40.aarch64.rp 733 kB/s | 227 kB 00:00
(2/23): kernel-16k-core-6.8.9-405.asahi.fc40.aarch 7.8 MB/s | 21 MB 00:02
(3/23): kernel-16k-modules-extra-6.8.9-405.asahi.f 2.9 MB/s | 1.6 MB 00:00
(4/23): kernel-16k-modules-core-6.8.9-405.asahi.fc 10 MB/s | 36 MB 00:03
(5/23): kernel-16k-modules-6.8.9-405.asahi.fc40.aa 11 MB/s | 53 MB 00:04
(6/23): fwupd-1.9.20-1.fc40.aarch64.rpm 5.6 MB/s | 2.0 MB 00:00
(7/23): fwupd-plugin-flashrom-1.9.20-1.fc40.aarch6 325 kB/s | 24 kB 00:00
(8/23): fwupd-plugin-modem-manager-1.9.20-1.fc40.a 1.1 MB/s | 55 kB 00:00
(9/23): fwupd-plugin-uefi-capsule-data-1.9.20-1.fc 15 MB/s | 2.0 MB 00:00
(10/23): kwin-6.0.4.1-4.fc40.aarch64.rpm 319 kB/s | 13 kB 00:00
(11/23): kwin-common-6.0.4.1-4.fc40.aarch64.rpm 14 MB/s | 3.7 MB 00:00
(12/23): kwin-libs-6.0.4.1-4.fc40.aarch64.rpm 14 MB/s | 2.3 MB 00:00
(13/23): kwin-wayland-6.0.4.1-4.fc40.aarch64.rpm 6.1 MB/s | 497 kB 00:00
(14/23): libmodulemd-2.15.0-12.fc40.aarch64.rpm 3.0 MB/s | 211 kB 00:00
(15/23): libspatialaudio-3.1-15.20200406gitd926a2e 12 MB/s | 911 kB 00:00
(16/23): selinux-policy-40.20-1.fc40.noarch.rpm 1.3 MB/s | 57 kB 00:00
(17/23): selinux-policy-targeted-40.20-1.fc40.noar 17 MB/s | 6.9 MB 00:00
(18/23): zsh-5.9-14.fc40.aarch64.rpm 14 MB/s | 3.3 MB 00:00
(19/23): proton-vpn-gtk-app-4.3.2-1.fc40.noarch.rp 557 kB/s | 216 kB 00:00
(20/23): python3-proton-vpn-api-core-0.24.4-1.fc40 2.2 MB/s | 104 kB 00:00
(21/23): python3-proton-vpn-killswitch-network-man 737 kB/s | 32 kB 00:00
(22/23): firefox-langpacks-126.0-7.fc40.aarch64.rp 11 MB/s | 46 MB 00:04
(23/23): firefox-126.0-7.fc40.aarch64.rpm 4.5 MB/s | 71 MB 00:15
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Total 13 MB/s | 252 MB 00:20
dracut-install takes about 9m to create initramfs.
I would be grateful to any help or advice.