Re: radical suggestion for fc4 release

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq nc rr com>]

Enrico Scholz wrote:

> shahms shahms com (Shahms King) writes:
>
>  
>
> > > [... removal of %changelog from rpms ...]
> > > It'd be interesting to see how much space something like this would save first.
> > >      
> > $ rpm -qa --changelog | wc -c
> > 11597562
> >    
>
> As they are stored compressed, it is much less:

Headers are compressed only in yum-2.0.x archives, no place else, certainly
not *.rpm files nor in /var/lib/rpm/Packages nor in any transaction set 
memory.

> | $ rpm -qpC --nodigest --nosignature *.rpm |LANG=C  wc 
> |  511863 2364195 15619260
>
> | $ rpm -qpC --nodigest --nosignature *.rpm | gzip -9 - | LANG=C  wc 
> |   12338   67545 3136942
>
> | $ rpm -qpC --nodigest --nosignature *.rpm | bzip2 -9 - | LANG=C  wc 
> |    6339   37933 1813872
>
> (FC3 binaries rpms).
>
>
> All this discussion because of 2-3 MB additional space?
>
>  

Yep, with the correction above.

73 de Jeff