Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 11:29:49PM -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 ?
>
> If you have the "yum-utils" package installed, you can use the
> "repoquery" command to read information from the repositories without
> installing or downloading full packages:
>
> repoquery --verbose --changelog <package_name> | less
There is also a yum-changelog package which adds a --changelog option
to yum. The output looks something like this:
# yum --changelog update
[...]
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package audit-libs.i386 0:1.7.5-1.fc9 set to be updated
---> Package audit-libs-python.i386 0:1.7.5-1.fc9 set to be updated
---> Package audit.i386 0:1.7.5-1.fc9 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Changes in packages about to be updated:
audit-libs-1.7.5-1.fc9.i386, audit-1.7.5-1.fc9.i386, audit-libs-python-1.7.5-1.fc9.i386
* Mon Aug 25 18:00:00 2008 Steve Grubb <sgrubb@xxxxxxxxxx> 1.7.5-1
- Update system-config-audit to 0.4.8
- Whole lot of bug fixes - see ChangeLog for details
- Reimplement auditd main loop using libev
- Add TCP listener to auditd to receive remote events
Dependencies Resolved
================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
================================================================================
Updating:
audit i386 1.7.5-1.fc9 updates-newkey 355 k
audit-libs i386 1.7.5-1.fc9 updates-newkey 76 k
audit-libs-python i386 1.7.5-1.fc9 updates-newkey 75 k
Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install 0 Package(s)
Update 3 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)
(Perhaps you'll find it amusing that the rpm changelog of this update
refers you to the upstream ChangeLog file for more details. :)
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