RPM history

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Mon May 19 16:11:17 UTC 2008


Chris Bredesen wrote:
> I'd like to answer the question, "what version of the kernel was on
> my  machine last month?"
>
> So, can yum or RPM give me a history of all the changes to package
> "whatever"?  I find the yum man page quite overwhelming :)

Well, try the rpm man page for more fun then. ;)

This isn't exaclty what you asked for, but try:

rpm -q --last kernel

Also have a look at /var/log/rpmpkgs* and /var/log/yum.log*

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