Re: [gentoo-dev] Rotating oversized ChangeLog files (was: Old changelogs / eclass dir)

2011-11-03 Thread James Broadhead
On Nov 3, 2011 10:25 a.m., "Andreas K. Huettel" wrote: > > On Donnerstag 03 November 2011 09:09:19 Michał Górny wrote: > > > > Maybe we should keep old changelogs in a separate directory to decrease > > ebuilddir pollution? > > Not sure about that. Thank you for this infusion of practicality. Ho

Re: [gentoo-dev] Rotating oversized ChangeLog files (was: Old changelogs / eclass dir)

2011-11-03 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
On Donnerstag 03 November 2011 09:09:19 Michał Górny wrote: > > Maybe we should keep old changelogs in a separate directory to decrease > ebuilddir pollution? Not sure about that. > > > The new ChangeLog file will be identical to the current ChangeLog > > file except for being truncated at 1/1/

Re: [gentoo-dev] Rotating oversized ChangeLog files (was: Old changelogs / eclass dir)

2011-11-03 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 01:33:38 +0100 "Andreas K. Huettel" wrote: > Dear all, > > > 2) I'd like to suggest that for changelogs that grow beyond a > > certain size (e.g. profiles/ChangeLog) the file is "rotated" > > similar to /var/log logfiles. I.e. the current file is renamed with > > a date extens

[gentoo-dev] Rotating oversized ChangeLog files (was: Old changelogs / eclass dir)

2011-11-02 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Dear all, > 2) I'd like to suggest that for changelogs that grow beyond a certain size > (e.g. profiles/ChangeLog) the file is "rotated" similar to /var/log > logfiles. I.e. the current file is renamed with a date extension and a new > file is started. This has the benefit that the archived file i