Dave Jones wrote:
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 01:13:26PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Been toying with the idea of splitting the changelog out of the kernel spec
> itself, to reduce the size of the spec file. Basically, instead of %changelog
> followed by all the entries, it'd be %include %{SOURCE1}, which is a file
> 'fedora-kernel-changelog', which carries all the usual changelog entries. Its
> reasonably trivial to implement, though my current hack-around for 'make clog'
> complains about me redefining the clog target. Is shaving 800+ lines out of
> the spec file (only to put them in another file) worth the hassle though?
Probably not until we move away from CVS to an SCM that doesn't suck.
It'd be nice if 'make build' slurped the changelog out of the SCM.
I stupidly left out the part where I was supposed to mention that what I had
in mind longer-term was that it'd be more straight-forward to manipulate a
stand-alone changelog, esp. if we could just dump the changelog out of our
SCM. (Some of what Don and Vivek are doing for RHEL w/git is what motivated me
in the first place).
We could also, if so desired, install the split-out changelog as a %doc file,
the thought being that not everyone knows to look at 'rpm -q --changelog'
output or look in the srpm/cvs/etc to see what's changed.
John W. Linville wrote:
> I don't see how. What is the motivation?
Apologies, see above. :)
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