Bug 512502

Summary:	anaconda ships huge ChangeLog
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Matthias Clasen <mclasen>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Dave Cantrell <dcantrell>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	12	CC:	anaconda-maint-list, rmaximo, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Description Matthias Clasen 2009-07-18 05:59:34 UTC

Looking for space on the live cd...

The ChangeLog in the anaconda package is almost 4M, beating the next smaller file in that package by a factor of 20. Could that be dropped, or moved to a -devel package or at least pruned to a reasonable size ?

Comment 1 Dave Cantrell 2009-07-20 20:30:32 UTC

We can gzip it down to 1.2M now, but that doesn't prevent us from shipping huge changelogs in the future.  10 years of development history means a big changelog.

We don't have a devel package for anaconda, so we can't put the ChangeLog there.  Some possible options:

1) gzip (or some other compression tool) the ChangeLog
2) Reduce it to a smaller set of changes, for example, it could contain all of the changes since the last Fedora release.  This could prove to be more trouble than it's worth.
3) Remove the ChangeLog entirely.

The ChangeLog is generated with git log, so it's pretty easy to regenerate.

Comment 2 Matthias Clasen 2009-07-21 04:08:53 UTC

Compressing it does not really win us anything for the live cd, since a) everything on the live cd is already on a compressed filesystem anyway and b) even after compression, ChangeLog is by far the largest file in anaconda

Comment 3 Dave Cantrell 2009-07-29 00:32:23 UTC

Removed the ChangeLog, pushed change to git repo.  The next build of anaconda will lack the ChangeLog in /usr/share/doc.

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2009-11-16 11:01:12 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle.
Changing version to '12'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping