possible to view changelog before upgrading via apt?

Thomas Springer th.springer at gmx.net
Sat Nov 12 19:40:21 UTC 2005


Am Samstag, den 12.11.2005, 08:44 -0800 schrieb Adam Monsen:
> I'm using APT-RPM for Fedora Core 4 and it works great. It seems quite
> fast compared to up2date and yum.
> 
> One feature that would be nice is the ability to view a changelog
> before upgrading a package. Is there a way to do this with apt-get or
> apt-cache or something? The only thing I can think of is downloading
> the .rpm file itself and querying it with 'rpm -q --changelog
> packagename-0.1-1.i386.rpm'.
> 

$ rpm -q --changelog http://url/packagename


Thomas
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