On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 09:52 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote: > What buggers me most about this whole discussion is that we're treating a > symptom, not the disease. Adding an option to rpmbuild to cut the > changelogs where desired is no big deal, but the real issue IMO is that > there's an enormous amount of redundancy in the changelog data. All of it > is carried as a separate copy in > - each binary rpm and it's possible subpackages > - likewise for rpmdb itself for installed packages > - src.rpm header > - in the spec inside src.rpm > - repository metadata (several times due to subpackages and src.rpms) > > That's helluva lot of duplicate data when you're transferring it over the > wire... Yes, but the above solution (whenever that might happen) doesn't solve carrying 10+ years of changelogs around. It's still more data than we probably need in any one or N locations. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
