Dear all, > 2) I'd like to suggest that for changelogs that grow beyond a certain size > (e.g. profiles/ChangeLog) the file is "rotated" similar to /var/log > logfiles. I.e. the current file is renamed with a date extension and a new > file is started. This has the benefit that the archived file is static and > will never be retransmitted by rsync.
to prevent that this becomes a victim of general ChangeLog bikeshedding (we must rotate at a logical point, how could it be automatized even if it is relevant for only a few files, then how do we prevent epmty files...) I suggest the following procedure: In a week's time I personally, manually, will "rotate" all ChangeLog files larger than 100k in the tree, by splitting them at 31/12/2010-1/1/2011. The old entries file will in each case be named ChangeLog-2010 in the same directory. (PMS: "A package directory may contain other files or directories, whose purpose is not covered by this specification.") The "old entries" file ChangeLog-2010 will be identical to the current ChangeLog file except for skipping at the start all entries added later than 31/12/2010. The new ChangeLog file will be identical to the current ChangeLog file except for being truncated at 1/1/2011. I currently count 19 relevant files. If we keep the 100k limit and rotate yearly, this will be doable by hand in the foreseeable future and any attempt at automating is a complete waste of time. Opinions, flames, ...? Cheers, Andreas PS. 774821 profiles/ChangeLog 166798 sys-kernel/gentoo-sources/ChangeLog 145004 sys-devel/gcc/ChangeLog 141505 sys-libs/glibc/ChangeLog 141397 media-video/mplayer/ChangeLog 133790 kde-base/kdelibs/ChangeLog 133257 www-client/firefox/ChangeLog 131385 x11-base/xorg-server/ChangeLog 130355 x11-base/xorg-x11/ChangeLog 124531 www-client/opera/ChangeLog 123722 sys-fs/udev/ChangeLog 115914 www-servers/apache/ChangeLog 112672 dev-db/mysql/ChangeLog 110957 media-video/vlc/ChangeLog 107961 sys-apps/baselayout/ChangeLog 107492 sys-kernel/git-sources/ChangeLog 105182 sys-kernel/hardened-sources/ChangeLog 104646 www-client/chromium/ChangeLog 100383 sys-kernel/vanilla-sources/ChangeLog -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/
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