On Dec 3, 2010, at 9:11 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > > I was fairly confident we could extract and build this from the > changelog's of released packages, but thats not going to happen since > they are not very consistend and dont even go back to the earlier > releases. eg in 5.[0123] quite a few pkgs dont carry this metadata at all. > > So, short of someone finding a way to get this info; sitting down and > typing it all up, it looks hard to get going. > The way to get the info is to use the package VCS check-ins, not %changelog from *.spec or --queryformat. There are too many issues with encoding and "bloat removal" filtering for package/spec extraction to be anything other than a chore. > With C6 however, all pkgs so far seem to have this metadata in the > changelog's. So its looking a lot better. > What really should be done is rip _ALL_ of %changelog everywhere and just set up a browser onto git/svn package repositories hosted on a server where it might be useful for many users and tools. But that's likely a minority heretical contrarian opinion of mine alone. hth 73 de Jeff