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From: Francesco Riosa <vivo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLogs and rsync time
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 09:30:44
Message-Id: 43B8F1E0.2030804@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLogs and rsync time by Grobian
1 Grobian wrote:
2 > On 01-01-2006 21:35:34 +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote with possible deletions:
3 >> The information contained in the ChangeLogs is essential, and it must be
4 >> kept, but, force the users to download all that data it's not optimal.
5 >>
6 >> That said I can see only two ways to reduce the ChangeLog files (a
7 >> centralized one is obviously not viable)
8 >>
9 >> 1) bzip2 them in some way.
10 >> 2) "rotate" Changelogs, keeping only the last changes, until a size
11 >
12 > or
13 > 3) remove entries for non-existing ebuilds
14 > 4) compress Changelog entries where possible
15
16 A combination of 2) and 3) looks good.
17 Maybe with some tool to automate it but that left to developer the final
18 decision on what cut or not.
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