On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 14:55 -0800, Shahms King wrote: > On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 17:34 -0500, Nick Bargnesi wrote: > > 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. For sake of completeness: $ rpm -qa --changelog | LANG=C wc 246340 1183597 7835570 $ rpm -qa --changelog | sed -n '/^* .\+ 200[45]/,/^* .\+ 200[0-3]/p' | LANG=C wc 63836 321574 2182535 The thing that fascinates me though: $ rpm -qa --changelog | grep -ic "To be, or not to be" 0 -- Ziga
