changelogs in packages and space use

[Warren Togami]

seth vidal wrote:
> 
> 1. trim the changelogs at createrepo-runtime - fine - but that only gets
> it for the repodata
> 
> 2. trim repos at rpmbuild time - great - I've suggested it as an option
> to rpmbuild on rpm-maint list. 
> 
> 3. trim them out of the pkgs the next time we change a package. Just
> prune them down to the last years worth of changelogs - maybe saving the
> old changelogs in a file in the cvs repository - or even into an unused
> source file in the srpm?
> 

Option #2 seems best to me.  The size of the sources is less critical 
than the size of the binary RPMS.  Meanwhile it might be more convenient 
to have an unbroken history all in one place, instead of a place on the 
side to check.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com