On Monday 04 May 2009 17:58:35 Adam Jackson wrote: > On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 17:08 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > been processed through something called specbuilder. The behaviour of > > this seems to have varied between versions - some remove the original > > changelog, some don't. In some cases the specfiles are identical to the > > Fedora ones (to the extent of including comments) but have simply had > > the changelog entries stripped. > > There is a reasonably legitimate technical reason for this, which is > that the changelogs end up in the rpmdb, which is wasted disk space for > the moblin use case (user just wants firefox and doesn't care about > package changelogs). It's about 24M on my machine, for instance. > > Of course that's also something you could strip out at rpmbuild time... Which sounds pretty good idea, so I went and asked: #rpm.org <Tuju> hi, any change ever seeing that feature metioned in moblin thread in fedora-devel mailing list? it was about dropping changelog from binaries in rpmbuild. <PanuM> Tuju: that's actually already implemented upstream, just not in any released version yet <Tuju> well that's great news. <PanuM> here's the reference: http://rpm.org/ticket/47 http://rpm.org/ticket/47 > DESCRIPTION > To save space in the packages and the rpmdb a macro could limit the > changelog in binary packages. That way ancient log entries could still be > looked up in the spec file. Limit could be done by #entries or by time or > both. > > 04/16/09 12:20:34 changed by jnovy > status changed from new to closed. > resolution set to fixed. > The new changelog trimming feature is now implemented upstream. The current > implementation allows changelog trimming based on changelog entry date. It > is specified via _changelog_trimtime macro: # The Unix time of the latest > kept changelog entry in binary packages. # Any older entry is not packaged > in binary packages. > %_changelog_trimtime 0 Tuju -- Varo hattupäisiä autoilijoita. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
