radical suggestion for fc4 release

[Ziga Mahkovec]

On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 14:55 -0800, Shahms King wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 17:34 -0500, Nick Bargnesi wrote:
> > It'd be interesting to see how much space something like this would save first.
> 
> $ rpm -qa --changelog | wc -c
> 11597562
> 
> That's just a little over 11 megabytes for all change logs on a FC3
> system.  I've also got non-Core packages installed which would increase
> that size slightly. That's also (obviously) including changelog entries
> which would not be stripped.  I'm just guessing here, but I suspect that
> the total savings would be significantly smaller.  I don't think the
> effort or loss of history would really be worth it.

For sake of completeness:

$ rpm -qa --changelog | LANG=C wc
 246340 1183597 7835570 
$ rpm -qa --changelog | sed -n '/^* .\+ 200[45]/,/^* .\+ 200[0-3]/p' | LANG=C wc
  63836  321574 2182535

The thing that fascinates me though:

$ rpm -qa --changelog | grep -ic "To be, or not to be"
0

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Ziga