Jeff Johnson <n3npq@xxxxxxxxx>: > seth vidal wrote: > > >Hi folks, > >this is a touch silly but possibly useful and it would definitely cut > >down on the old crap blocking up cdroms. > > > >how about if we kill all rpm spec file changelog entries OLDER than 2 > >years. > > > >they'll still live on in older srpms and rpms but it'd be a useful > >reduction and it would make the specfiles that much smaller, along with > >the rpm headers. > > > > > > +1 Oh, no. *Bad* idea. It's an attack on the symptom, not the problem. If changelogs are bloating the headers yum has to download, then strip them out when generating the yum headers. -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
