seth vidal wrote, at 08/31/2007 11:47 AM +9:00: > Colin Walters mentioned on irc reducing the changelogs kept in pkgs a > bit to help us fit on the livecd a bit better. I didn't really believe > it would make enough of an impact to be noticeable but I did a little > mucking about and found I was wrong. So I wrote this: > > http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/changelog/changelog-sizes.py > > That may not seem like much but when we're squinched for space in 700M > on a livecd that 8.6M might be all that's needed. Moreover it may be a > bit silly to be carting all of this history around in all the pkgs and > repodata and in the rpmdb. Esp if we're trying to trim download sizes > for various items. So things we can do: > > 1. trim the changelogs at createrepo-runtime - fine - but that only gets > it for the repodata > > 2. trim repos at rpmbuild time - great - I've suggested it as an option > to rpmbuild on rpm-maint list. > > 3. trim them out of the pkgs the next time we change a package. Just > prune them down to the last years worth of changelogs - maybe saving the > old changelogs in a file in the cvs repository - or even into an unused > source file in the srpm? > > What're people's thoughts on this? Just note that this is once discussed on: http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-devel-list/2007-May/msg01646.html (I guess no conclusion was made though). Regards, Mamoru -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
