On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 17:34 -0500, Nick Bargnesi wrote: > On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:04:36 -0500, seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. > > > > thoughts? > > It'd be interesting to see how much space something like this would save first. $ rpm -qa --changelog | wc -c 11597562 That's just a little over 11 megabytes for all change logs on a FC3 system. I've also got non-Core packages installed which would increase that size slightly. That's also (obviously) including changelog entries which would not be stripped. I'm just guessing here, but I suspect that the total savings would be significantly smaller. I don't think the effort or loss of history would really be worth it. -- Shahms E. King <shahms@xxxxxxxxxx> Multnomah ESD Public Key: http://shahms.mesd.k12.or.us/~sking/shahms.asc Fingerprint: 1612 054B CE92 8770 F1EA AB1B FEAB 3636 45B2 D75B
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