On Donnerstag 03 November 2011 11:59:55 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>>>> On Thu, 3 Nov 2011, Andreas K Huettel wrote: > > On Donnerstag 03 November 2011 10:16:53 Michael Haubenwallner wrote: > >> As we do have the "$delay before breaking old" period, usually with > >> $delay="1 year": Should we also apply this $delay to the output of > >> above command? > > > > Makes all perfect sense... however I suggest to agree on a general > > scheme and go ahead manually first if implementation and/or > > discussion of its details or planned features is lingering... > > How about this: > - Possible split points are only at the end of years. > - Start at the end of the file and go backwards. > - Split it whenever the piece after the split point is larger than $size. > - Stop if the next split point is less than $delay ago. > > Reasonable values are 50 or 100 KiB for $size and 1 year for $delay, > IMHO.
Sounds good. So, we have a spec... and the portage team has two months to get it into "emerge --changelog". :) -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/
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