radical suggestion for fc4 release

Jeff Johnson n3npq at nc.rr.com
Tue Feb 1 01:16:50 UTC 2005


seth vidal wrote:

>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 :)
>

Let's move changelogs to specspo so that developers can write in their 
native language!

73 de Jeff, still in denial about changelog encoding rules.





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