RPM changelog

[Elan Ruusamäe]

On Thursday 27 April 2006 19:29, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:
> On Thursday 27 April 2006 15:37, Marcin Król wrote:
> > > but while we were discussing migration to svn it was stated
> > > that we really need complete changelog. always.
> >
> > Wait a second. I got lost. glen wants to cut changelog in CVS/SVN or in
> > packages at build time? If in specs, then some of them have already been
> > cut manually. If in rpms, isn't it pointless?
>
> in binary rpm's. why pointless?
...

oh, and this one too. if the changelog is complete, the filelist is 30 pages far away, comparing to "on next page"

$ less rpm-4.4.2-31.50.i686.rpm
Name        : rpm                          Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 4.4.2                             Vendor: (none)
Release     : 31.50                         Build Date: Thu Apr 27 01:12:53 2006
Install Date: (not installed)               Build Host: builder-ac
Group       : Base                          Source RPM: rpm-4.4.2-31.50.src.rpm
Size        : 1206233                          License: GPL
Signature   : (none)
URL         : http://wraptastic.org/
Summary     : RPM Package Manager
Description :
RPM is a powerful package manager, which can be used to build,
install, query, verify, update, and uninstall individual software
packages. A package consists of an archive of files, and package
information, including name, version, and description.
* Thu Apr 27 2006 PLD Team <feedback at pld-linux.org>
All persons listed below can be reached at <cvs_login>@pld-linux.org

$Log: rpm.spec,v $
Revision 1.555.2.171  2006/04/26 21:55:11  glen
- skip reading backups and rpmsave files from /etc/rpm
- lockup fix for non-vanilla kernels (ck for example)
[...]

Revision 1.555.2.157  2005/11/08 15:51:52  qboosh
- added cleanlibdirs patch (avoid -L poisoning in *.la)
- release 26

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root    root            80408 Apr 27 01:12 /bin/rpm
drwxr-xr-x    2 root    root                0 Apr 27 01:12 /etc/rpm
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root              399 Apr 27 01:12 /etc/rpm/macros
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root    root             2561 Apr 27 01:12 /usr/lib/rpm/convertrpmrc.sh
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root            40012 Apr 27 01:12 /usr/lib/rpm/macros
[...]

-- 
glen