what has 'yum update' done?

[lee]

"Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." <eoconnor25 at gmail.com> writes:

> On 07/13/2013 06:51 PM, lee wrote:
>> It's not simply about knowing which packages have been or are to be
>> updated --- that I can see when running 'yum update'.  It's about
>> information what has actually changed when a package was updated.
>>
>> For example, you would get a mail like this:
>>
>>
>> ,----
>> | From: root <root at yun.yagibdah.de>
>> | Subject: apt-listchanges: news for yun
>> | To: root at yun.yagibdah.de
>> | Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2012 22:02:28 +0100
>> |
>> | tmux (1.7~svn2819-1) experimental; urgency=low
>> |
>> |   The server protocol version was changed from 6 to 7, we recommend that
>> |   you close any open tmux sessions before proceeding with the upgrade.
>> |
>> |  -- Romain Francoise <rfrancoise at debian.org>  Wed, 30 May 2012 19:52:56 +0200
>> |
>> `----
>>
> This sounds like an awesome idea!....Hmm....I wonder if this could
> tie-in with Seth Vidal having something named after him?..(a,k,a,
> whatever they come up with to actually DO this...could be named after
> Seth!?)....just a thought...

Something like 'yum-seth-plugin', sending you messages with a subject
like "Seth reminds you: <package-name>", and make yum depend on it?


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