changelogs in packages and space use

[Mamoru Tasaka]

seth vidal wrote, at 08/31/2007 11:47 AM +9:00:
> Colin Walters mentioned on irc reducing the changelogs kept in pkgs a
> bit to help us fit on the livecd a bit better. I didn't really believe
> it would make enough of an impact to be noticeable but I did a little
> mucking about and found I was wrong. So I wrote this:
> 
> http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/changelog/changelog-sizes.py
> 
> That may not seem like much but when we're squinched for space in 700M
> on a livecd that 8.6M might be all that's needed. Moreover it may be a
> bit silly to be carting all of this history around in all the pkgs and
> repodata and in the rpmdb. Esp if we're trying to trim download sizes
> for various items. So things we can do:
> 
> 1. trim the changelogs at createrepo-runtime - fine - but that only gets
> it for the repodata
> 
> 2. trim repos at rpmbuild time - great - I've suggested it as an option
> to rpmbuild on rpm-maint list. 
> 
> 3. trim them out of the pkgs the next time we change a package. Just
> prune them down to the last years worth of changelogs - maybe saving the
> old changelogs in a file in the cvs repository - or even into an unused
> source file in the srpm?
> 
> What're people's thoughts on this?

Just note that this is once discussed on:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-devel-list/2007-May/msg01646.html
(I guess no conclusion was made though).

Regards,
Mamoru