what has 'yum update' done?

[lee]

Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> writes:

> On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 05:57:57PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
>> what he menat was showing the difference between
>> present and new config file before updates and the
>> option to merge them - not that the merge is useful
>> in many cases but *that* is was Debian offers
>
>
> Oh, I see. There used to be a plugin that did that, I think, but I don't see
> it now. We do have:
>
> yum-plugin-changelog
> yum-plugin-merge-conf

Sounds cool, I just installed


yum-plugin-changelog
yum-plugin-merge-conf


and will see what they do.  There's also
'yum-plugin-post-transaction-actions' --- couldn't that be used to send
emails with information about what changed when a package is updated?


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