radical suggestion for fc4 release

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Tue Feb 1 01:10:17 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 17:04 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 16:09, seth vidal wrote:
> > > Oh, no.  *Bad* idea.  It's an attack on the symptom, not the problem.
> > > 
> > > If changelogs are bloating the headers yum has to download, then 
> > > strip them out when generating the yum headers.
> > 
> > it's not bloating the headers - well not JUST that.
> > 
> > I'm also thinking of decreasing the useles space eaten up by them on the
> > cd isos.
> 
> how much space do they eat currently?
> -- Fernando

well they're stored in at LEAST 3 different places on the cds:

1. the packages
2. the srpms
3. the rpmdb-fedora
4. maybe in hdlist2?
5. the metadata

I think that's more than enough locations :)

-sv






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