On 17 Nov 2003 07:39:05 -0700, Bill Anderson wrote: > On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 13:15, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 13:15:22 -0500, Lamar Owen wrote: > ... > > > And that's what changelogs are for. > > > > What a great idea! :-/ Let package users search through spec changelogs to > > find out whether there's anything special about a package. Because you > > and me do that, it should not be *the* recommended way. > > > Actually, I think RPM itself should provide an option to get that > changelog out. Pardon? rpm --query --changelog PACKAGENAME exists already. The problem is, it doesn't contain end-user relevant entries. And if the package maintainer updates the package often or if the packaged software is huge, the size and number of spec changelog entries can be overwhelming. --
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