Fedora Core 6 Update web site

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Thu Apr 19 02:21:02 UTC 2007


Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Ed Greshko wrote:
>> Ed Greshko wrote:
>>
>>> Did you try "yum info"?
>> Sorry, you probably want "rpm -q --changelog"
> 
> Of course, that's only good after you've downloaded and installed the
> packages.  It might be that someone wants to see what's changed prior
> to that step so that they don't have to bother downloading and
> installing for things that they don't care about. :)
> 
> For that, using repoquery --changelog package1 [...packageN] is handy.
> You could even get the list of packages to feed the repoquery from yum
> check-update.
> 
> Or you could subscribe to the announce list like someone else
> mentioned.  But that's far less fun that toying with bash or another
> scripting language. ;)

So many choices, so little time.  :-)


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