radical suggestion for fc4 release
Ziga Mahkovec
ziga.mahkovec at klika.si
Mon Jan 31 23:59:53 UTC 2005
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
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Ziga
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