[Rpm-maint] changelog truncating

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 18:09 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Thursday 30 August 2007, seth vidal wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  Would it be possible to add an option to the specfile parser or to
> > rpmbuild that would tell it to truncate the changelogs included in the
> > package last N entries? It would default to including them all but give
> > us the option of clipping off the really old ones just eating up space
> > on mirrors and in repodata.
> 
> That would clip it off the actual packages too, no?
> 
yes. that's the point

keeps it out of the rpmdb, out of the metadata, the whole shooting
match.

-sv