On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 11:58 +0900, Mamoru Tasaka wrote: > 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). You're right - no conclusion - but I guess I should put this to the packaging committee to get it added to the criteria - if we nuke everything but the last years worth from the %changelog and we do that as something useful to do for every release - then we'll be able to keep it pruned down and we'll still keep the history. People on the packaging committe - does that sound fair? -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
