radical suggestion for fc4 release

[Jeff Johnson]

Enrico Scholz wrote:

>shahms at shahms.com (Shahms King) writes:
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>>>[... removal of %changelog from rpms ...]
>>>It'd be interesting to see how much space something like this would save first.
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>>$ rpm -qa --changelog | wc -c
>>11597562
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>As they are stored compressed, it is much less:
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Headers are compressed only in yum-2.0.x archives, no place else, certainly
not *.rpm files nor in /var/lib/rpm/Packages nor in any transaction set 
memory.

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>| $ rpm -qpC --nodigest --nosignature *.rpm |LANG=C  wc 
>|  511863 2364195 15619260
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>| $ rpm -qpC --nodigest --nosignature *.rpm | gzip -9 - | LANG=C  wc 
>|   12338   67545 3136942
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>| $ rpm -qpC --nodigest --nosignature *.rpm | bzip2 -9 - | LANG=C  wc 
>|    6339   37933 1813872
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>(FC3 binaries rpms).
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>All this discussion because of 2-3 MB additional space?
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Yep, with the correction above.

73 de Jeff