----- "Karsten Wade" <kwade(a)redhat.com> wrote:
So, yes, there is a novel idea here -- a permanent beat page on the
wiki that has:
* Commands to use to get more info about packages (yum info, rpm -q
--changelog)
* List of packages for that section
* Programmatically generated changes between FN and FN-1
I hadn't pondered digging into the sqlite files. I found koji to be helpful for
finding the version delta of packages across (non-EOL) distributions.
My messy hack is here
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DaleBewley#Virtualization_Release_Notes
* pkgs.in contains CSV package name, relnotes URL
* dist.in contains f9, f10, etc
#!/bin/bash
grep -v '^#' pkgs.in | while read line; do
grep -v '^#' dist.in | while read dist; do
pkg=`echo $line | awk '{print $1}'`
notes=`echo $line | awk '{print $2}'`
ver=`koji latest-pkg "$dist" "$pkg" | tail -1 | awk
'{print $1}'`
echo "$pkg, $dist, $ver, $notes"
done
done
I then read the upstream relnotes for each release since the last Fedora distribution to
produce a summary of changes for the Fedora relnotes.
John mentioned a page to augment a beat for tracking changes. That may be an appropriate
use of the discussion tab on an article. As a new beat writer, I used my personal page for
that.
I think a page of tips like this will be very helpful.