Re: other.xml trimming of changelogs

On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 00:23 +0100, Jos Vos wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 05:32:56PM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> > As was discussed on fedora-devel and other places - maybe it would be a
> > good idea to trim the changelogs included in other.xml down to the
> > latest 20 or the last 12 months - whichever is more?
> 
> If this is done in the rpm package headers, it will automatically be
> reflected in the repo's header info.  Let's not define our own
> policy, I would say, better stay with the full headers.

Well it sounds like it is less likely to happen in the rpmbuild level
and it would significantly trim the other.xml data size.

what if, as Panu suggested, it kept the last N entries as specified on a
commandline option - and defaulted to ALL?

then functionality doesn't change but it lets you decrease the data set
if you so desire?

-sv