>>>>> On Sun, 1 May 2011, Markos Chandras wrote: > Since most ( if not all ) of us use the same message on the > Changelog and on the commit log, it probably worth the effort of > having the rsync servers create the Changelogs before populate the > portage tree.
A separate ChangeLog has the advantage that entries for trivial changes can be omitted. Most people wouldn't want to read entries about comment changes, for example. Also entries can be edited, which is not possible if the ChangeLog is generated from commit messages. > 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. Ten is way too small. Chances are that after one round of stabilisations the ChangeLog entry for the last real change to the package will be gone. We should keep at least one year (better two) of history, because our aim is that users' systems should still be upgradeable after this time. And IMHO emerge -l should give the user the full list of changes since his last update. Ulrich
