On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 03:33:25PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> >> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 05:00:21PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> >> > > Please, no, don't do that. RPM is a standard, the changelog is
> >> > > part of that. It would be pretty crappy to just declare we're
> >> > > going to stop using RPM changelogs and bake some random new idea
> >> > > into our distro's packaging tools instead.
> >> > I agree with Adam here.
> >>
> >> Well, except -- it doesn't come for free. I was just talking to David
> >> Shea about something different and he mentioned that changelogs
> >> comprise about 40% of RPM metadata, both on disk and in-memory for
> >> every transaction.
> >
> > How about we globally set:
> >
> > %global _changelog_trimtime %(date +%s -d "1 year ago")
> >
> > (or 6 months or whatever).
> >
> > Then git still has the full changelog for anyone that cares, but all
> > the rpms have a trimmed changelog.
>
> Yes! This was the parameter I couldn't remember above. I think this
> makes sense. The full spec changelog is then kept in dist-git and just
> trimmed as part of the build process. No loss and it's uniform.
FWIW, SUSE has a patch in rpm that trims only the changelog of binary rpms
and leaves the full changelog in the source rpms.
Cheers,
Michael.
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