Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (78 mails)

[Wolfgang Rosenauer <wolfgang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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


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