[Rpm-metadata] other.xml trimming of changelogs

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 02:31 -0500, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 00:23 +0100, Jos Vos wrote:
> >  
> >
> >Well it sounds like it is less likely to happen in the rpmbuild level
> >and it would significantly trim the other.xml data size.
> >  
> >
> 
> Hint: No RFE, no fix.
> 
> It would be trivial to teach rpmbuild a macro to truncate at either N or 
> timestamp,
> with default behavior off.
> 

Yep, I really just meant that getting a new version of rpm in place and
populated out to all the package builders is harder than getting a new
version of createrepo to the major repos.

-sv