On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 10:36 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > 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. As I said, I thought the changelog wasn't part of the header data, but apparently I was mistaken. > 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. :) Of course :-) poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
