release_process: maybe document filtering some elements
Originally created by @CyrilBrulebois on #16243 (Redmine)
While preparing the 3.10* releases, it was decided to skip updating the
config/binary_rootfs/squashfs.sort
(except for the kernel ABI bump
through sed →
9593161c98d48d5cff744db23e4d171819c46ebf.
While preparing the 3.11 release, I’ve seen a bunch of updates under
/run/udev
. Latest file has:
run/mount/utab
run/network/ifstate
run/systemd/generator.late/speech-dispatcher.service
run/udev/links/\x2fcdrom/b11:0
run/udev/links/\x2fdisk\x2fby-id\x2fata-QEMU_DVD-ROM_QM00001/b11:0
run/udev/links/\x2fdisk\x2fby-label\x2fTAILS\x5cx203.11\x5cx20-\x5cx2020181210/b11:0
run/udev/links/\x2fdisk\x2fby-path\x2fpci-0000:00:01.1-ata-1/b11:0
run/udev/links/\x2fdisk\x2fby-uuid\x2f2018-12-10-15-12-25-00/b11:0
run/udev/links/\x2frtc/c252:0
run/udev/tags/master-of-seat/c226:0
run/udev/tags/master-of-seat/c29:0
run/udev/tags/master-of-seat/+drm:card0-VGA-1
run/udev/tags/seat/c189:0
run/udev/tags/seat/c189:128
run/udev/tags/seat/c189:256
run/udev/tags/seat/c189:384
run/udev/tags/seat/c226:0
run/udev/tags/seat/c29:0
run/udev/tags/seat/+drm:card0-VGA-1
run/udev/tags/seat/+input:input0
run/udev/tags/seat/+input:input2
run/udev/tags/seat/+input:input3
run/udev/tags/seat/+input:input4
run/udev/tags/seat/+input:input5
run/utmp
anonym also mentioned filtering *.pyc
files? It might be worth a few
minutes figuring out what we could filter out every time, so as to
reduce the diff’s size on the long run?