How to display details and severity of the updates using yum on a command-line?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 13:01 +0100, jaivuk wrote:
> Hello guys,
> 
> Using F11 in graphical "Software update" tool I can see severity and
> also detailed information about an update, for example here are the
> details about latest update for coreutils:
> 
> This update will fix bugs and other non-critical problems.
> This notification was issued on 2009-09-09.
> • ls -i: print consistent inode numbers also for mount points
> (#453709)
> • do process install-info only with info files present(#515970)
> • fix misalignment in ls -l in fr_FR locales(#517626)
> 
> However I prefer to do my updates via command line using yum update
> command. My question is - how can I display 
> the same information via command-line yum? I would also like to see
> severity as well - for example if update is critical or not.

repoquery --changelog <package>

(maybe pipe it to less or head to just see the latest changes)

poc