From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QGfok-0001qA-2x for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 01 May 2011 23:12:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 490111C0B7; Sun, 1 May 2011 23:12:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D8BA1C002 for ; Sun, 1 May 2011 23:12:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 760571B401F for ; Sun, 1 May 2011 23:12:08 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.527 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.527 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.072, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id mpjJ75fX5Umn for ; Sun, 1 May 2011 23:12:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E2431B4050 for ; Sun, 1 May 2011 23:11:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QGfnu-0007t4-IL for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Mon, 02 May 2011 01:11:54 +0200 Received: from ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.231.22.224]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 02 May 2011 01:11:54 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 02 May 2011 01:11:54 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Devmanual text on ChangeLogs Date: Sun, 1 May 2011 23:11:44 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <4DBBCC6D.7080504@gentoo.org> <20110501100017.GE24801@gentoo.org> <20110501210831.GA2816@Eternity.halls.manchester.ac.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.134 (Wait for Me; GIT 9383aac branch-testing) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 1c665fb6fd3a441f2bd43ada25abbcb6 Markos Chandras posted on Sun, 01 May 2011 22:08:31 +0100 as excerpted: > Having the servers do that, will also allow us to provide cut down > Changelogs ( lets say keep that last 10 entries ) so we can provide a > more minimal portage tree, size wise. What about cutting it to the largest whole number of entries that can fit= =20 in 4 KB, since many filesystems use 4 KB blocks anyway, with files always= =20 taking a whole number of blocks? If the file's going to use 4 KB anyway, might as well take advantage of i= t. Taking a look at the top of my last synced portage changelog as what's=20 likely an example from the verbose end, that's thirteen entries, here,=20 plus the header at the top. For most packages I imagine it'd be somethin= g=20 like 20 entries. (Yes, I know some filesystems don't have that restriction and in fact use= =20 one myself, but if we're going for some arbitrary file size, 4 KB is abou= t=20 as reasonable a choice as it gets, precisely /because/ that's the default= =20 block size for so many widely used fss.) --=20 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman