[Rpm-maint] changelog truncating

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 21:53 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Thursday 30 August 2007, seth vidal wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Well, you probably guessed it but I don't really like it if it causes the need 
> for me to start hunting older changelog entries than what's available in 
> packages/rpmdb from specfiles, CVS and whatnot.  I wouldn't mind it if the 
> clipped entries were automatically placed in a let's say something like an 
> old-package-changelog.txt %doc file (or if the packagers just did that 
> themselves).

What if we took it off and shoved them in a source file in the srpm -
but not in the binary rpm?


-sv