Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLogs and rsync time

[Francesco Riosa <vivo@gentoo.org>]

Grobian wrote:
> On 01-01-2006 21:35:34 +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote with possible deletions:
>> The information contained in the ChangeLogs is essential, and it must be
>> kept, but, force the users to download all that data it's not optimal.
>>
>> That said I can see only two ways to reduce the ChangeLog files (a
>> centralized one is obviously not viable)
>>
>> 1) bzip2 them in some way.
>> 2) "rotate" Changelogs, keeping only the last changes, until a size
> 
> or
> 3) remove entries for non-existing ebuilds
> 4) compress Changelog entries where possible

A combination of 2) and 3) looks good.
Maybe with some tool to automate it but that left to developer the final
decision on what cut or not.


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