Freshrpms.net concerns.

[Bill Anderson]

On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 08:55, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 07:39:05AM -0700, Bill Anderson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 13:15, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > > On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 13:15:22 -0500, Lamar Owen wrote:
> > ...
> > > > And that's what changelogs are for. 
> > > 
> > > What a great idea! :-/ Let package users search through spec
> > > changelogs to find out whether there's anything special about a
> > > package. Because you and me do that, it should not be *the*
> > > recommended way.
> > 
> > Actually, I think RPM itself should provide an option to get that
> > changelog out. If it were (perhaps just the changes from the last
> > release) then the tools could provide that information.
> 
> rpm provides --changelog for this, examples:
> 
> rpm -q --changelog XFree86 | head
> rpm -qp --changelog package.rpm | head

Sweet. When did that happen, I don't remember it? :)
Ahh who cares, it's there. Now if the update tools would incorporate
this so you can see why you should upgrade something, that'd be sweet.

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Bill Anderson
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bill at noreboots.com