On Thu, Aug 16, 2007, Robert Scheck wrote:

> Evening everybody,
>
> as I'm using RPM 4.5 productively for my system, I've two points:
>
>  a) Why are we lacking Berkeley DB 4.6.18? IIRC, there were tries and plans
>     to do so
>  b) Can we remove db/docs in 4.5 like in HEAD? On my system this saved
>     about 6 MB at the tarball (8 vs. 14 MB). Finally I'm curious how Ralf
>     was able to break down the whole tarball to about 6 or 7 MB - Ralf?

For rolling the tarballs a cronjob refreshes a clean CVS working area of
RPM 5.0, performs a "devtool autogen", following by a "configure" and
"make dist". That's it. The size difference might be because "make dist"
picks up files selectively only.

                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
                                       rse@engelschall.com
                                       www.engelschall.com