[ACTION REQUIRED] [FINAL NOTICE] Retiring packages for F-18

Josh Stone jistone at redhat.com
Tue Jul 31 21:36:50 UTC 2012


On 07/31/2012 02:03 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
>> Are those build.log files really so large that they cannot be kept for
>> longer? :-( It's so annoying to see those build failures and to have no idea
>> why the builds failed.
> 
> There's 3 per build (src,i686,x64) and they do get pretty big, just
> look at the size of a kernel, qt or libreoffice build.

Are they at least stored compressed?

As such logs are highly repetitive, they're ideal for compression.  I
tried a kernel build.log with bzip2, and it went from 3.9M to 211K.  And
qt is better, from 20M to 294k!

Josh


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