On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 16:46, Bill Anderson wrote: > On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 08:55, Axel Thimm wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 07:39:05AM -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. If it were (perhaps just the changes from the last > > > release) then the tools could provide that information. > > > > rpm provides --changelog for this, examples: > > > > rpm -q --changelog XFree86 | head > > rpm -qp --changelog package.rpm | head > > Sweet. When did that happen, I don't remember it? :) > Ahh who cares, it's there. Now if the update tools would incorporate > this so you can see why you should upgrade something, that'd be sweet. apt-listchanges can do that, but dunno if it's been packaged for Fedora anywhere (doing that is somewhere down on my todo list actually) Also I've a Lua-script for apt which will show you the changes *after* upgrading, apt-listchanges shows them before committing to upgrade which I think you're after. - Panu -
