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