How to know what is fixed in an updated package ?

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Do, den 24.06.2004 schrieb Eric Tanguy um 20:30:

[ reordered top-posting ]

> > > All is in the title.
> > > Thanxes
> > > Eric
> > 
> > Look for the package's changelog:
> > 
> > rpm -q --changelog <package>
> > 
> > Not all packagers maintain a detailed changelog, but most do.

> > Anand Buddhdev

> Ok but i use yum so i don't have packages ?
> Eric

yum is just an installer, a tool that wraps around rpm and makes it easy
to install packages - which are RPMs -, to uninstall them, always taking
care for dependencies, and to do a lot more. Eric, you should start
reading some basic documentation about your RPM based system.

Alexander

P.S. And please don't top-post.


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