[zypp-devel] RFE: displaying changelog
Hi, I just subscribed here and didn't follow zypp development that near but what I always miss (in YaST and zypper) is the possibility to display the changelog of a package before I install it. rpm-md keeps the changelog in other.xml.gz so it's available at least w/o downloading and parsing RPMs and I'd expect that libzypp should be able to get it "easily". Probably libzypp ignores other.xml currently and that file can be quite big I guess so I think it would be ok to process changelogs only by request which also could take a bit of time but it would be nice to be able to get all relevant information in one place. Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: zypp-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: zypp-devel+help@opensuse.org
Hi Wolfgang, On Sat, 24 Nov 2007, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
I just subscribed here and didn't follow zypp development that near but what I always miss (in YaST and zypper) is the possibility to display the changelog of a package before I install it.
rpm-md keeps the changelog in other.xml.gz so it's available at least w/o downloading and parsing RPMs and I'd expect that libzypp should be able to get it "easily".
Before having this request, you looked at other.xml.gz, right? And you did notice that it's 50MB (for FACTORY), compressed, right? ;-) Seriously we (at least I) consider adding the changelog to the attribute store, but it does come at a fairly large cost in download size, so we might split it, or cut it after some entries (like, say only have the last 10 entries, or so).
Probably libzypp ignores other.xml currently and that file can be quite big I guess so I think it would be ok to process changelogs only by request which also could take a bit of time but it would be nice to be able to get all relevant information in one place.
Ciao, Michael. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: zypp-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: zypp-devel+help@opensuse.org
Hi, Michael Matz wrote:
Hi Wolfgang,
On Sat, 24 Nov 2007, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
I just subscribed here and didn't follow zypp development that near but what I always miss (in YaST and zypper) is the possibility to display the changelog of a package before I install it.
rpm-md keeps the changelog in other.xml.gz so it's available at least w/o downloading and parsing RPMs and I'd expect that libzypp should be able to get it "easily".
Before having this request, you looked at other.xml.gz, right? And you did notice that it's 50MB (for FACTORY), compressed, right? ;-)
Yes, I expected it to become large easily but my usecase isn't to look at changelogs from Factory but at changelogs from the official update repo and buildservice repos. Those are at least a bit smaller ;-)
Seriously we (at least I) consider adding the changelog to the attribute store, but it does come at a fairly large cost in download size, so we might split it, or cut it after some entries (like, say only have the last 10 entries, or so).
Limiting it should be fine and understandable. Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: zypp-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: zypp-devel+help@opensuse.org
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Michael Matz
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Wolfgang Rosenauer