On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:55:45 -0800, Shahms King <shahms@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > I'll backpedal and agree with you. 11 MB is very negligible when only concerned with the size of FC3. > -- > 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 > > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > > > -- Nick Bargnesi http://www.den-4.com Den 4 Software pub 1024D/E8BD2FD0 2004-12-02 Nick Bargnesi <nbargnesi@xxxxxxxxx> Key fingerprint = 6F9D 9404 63CD 2B04 DE7A 0F9D A1ED C1B0 E8BD 2FD0 sub 2048g/56C5D45B 2004-12-02 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
