Re: yum question

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Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 23:29 -0400, Mail Lists wrote:
>> If there are available updates - it would be nice to know what the
>> changes are - ie show the changelog of the update - is there an
>> option in yum to show the changelog ? Or must we download the rpm
>> and query it by hand ?
> 
> AFAIK the changelog is part of the rpm file set rather than the
> headers, so you would have to download the rpm.

That header information is available in the repodata, so tools like
yum and repoquery can get it for you without needing to download the
rpm.

In the case of small packages, downloading the rpm instead of the
extra repodata files (which cover all packages) can very easily be the
smaller download. :)

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