From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EtM1b-0007xn-Kk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2006 09:30:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k029TUbw012599; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 09:29:30 GMT Received: from mail.pnpitalia.it (85-18-21-122.ip.fastwebnet.it [85.18.21.122]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k029QwWt016220 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 09:26:58 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.pnpitalia.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id F04EB7AD139 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 10:26:57 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.pnpitalia.it ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (db [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 26263-20 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 10:26:57 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.4.153] (host-4-153.pnpitalia.it [192.168.4.153]) by mail.pnpitalia.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E8D57AD138 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 10:26:57 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <43B8F1E0.2030804@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 10:26:56 +0100 From: Francesco Riosa User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5 (X11/20051227) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLogs and rsync time References: <43B83D16.6060803@gentoo.org> <20060101214818.GB17018@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20060101214818.GB17018@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at db X-Archives-Salt: 4f5624d1-535f-40e8-a153-410960d3b348 X-Archives-Hash: f4d4a4a131fefd00739c2dda58d76c35 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. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list