I stand corrected then, lets have a look at things uncompressed: glibc - 360K gcc - 20K gdb - 148K
Still fail to see the "big deal", sorry. On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Florian Festi <ffe...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 04/17/2013 10:25 AM, Dan Fruehauf wrote: > > That's around 50K, and compressed (RPMs are compressed): > > $ rpm -q --changelog binutils | gzip | wc -c > > 15552 > > > > 15K is nothing. Really. I like to see the whole history of a package, > > it's nice and fun. > > That's not correct. The change log is stored within the rpm header which > is not compressed. While there have been efforts to compress the header > those changes have not (yet) made it upstream as it would make rpm > packages completely incompatible with older rpm versions. > > For limiting the change log entries in the binary packages > %_changelog_trimtime can be used that take a unix time stamp as an > integer value. This way the whole history is still available in the spec > file. > > Florian > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel >
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