RPM changelog

Bartosz Taudul wolf.pld at gmail.com
Fri Apr 28 14:55:51 CEST 2006


On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 10:20:36PM +0200, Marcin Król wrote:
> > in binary rpm's. why pointless?
> Few KB more or less per rpm makes no difference for me.
[14:51 wolf at bajzel:~]% rpm -qa|wc -l
1423

Assuming every package has 10 KB worth of changelog, then we're talking
about 14 MB of almost never used, slowing rpm down, taking disk space
crap. That's a lot of difference to me.

> 
> > changelog isn't compressed, and some small packages have more in changelog in 
> Small packages usually doesn't have big changelogs.
That assumption is just plain wrong.

wolf
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