Updates announcements?
Jorge Fábregas
fabregasj at prtc.net
Fri Nov 19 15:49:27 UTC 2004
On Friday 19 November 2004 9:30 am, cmurtaugh wrote:
> I'm a little reluctant to install them without knowing what changed.
Hi,
The announcement emails aren't the only source to find out what the fix was
for (whether a bug fix, sec. update, improvements etc..). You can download
the rpm and query the rpm's changelog like this:
rpm -qp --changelog whatever-1.2.3-fc2.rpm
In fact (most of the time) what you will see on the announcement email is the
last update to the changelog which is in the format (usually):
* Date <developer name & email> <version & release of package>
- Brief description of update...
For example, this is from one of the emails (from fedora-announcement)
regarding the xorg-x11 package update:
--------------- cut here --------------------
* Mon Nov 15 2004 Kristian Høgsberg <krh at redhat.com> 6.7.0-10
- Added xorg-x11-6.7.0-xpm-security-fixes-CAN-2004-0914.patch to fix a
number of Xpm issues found by Thomas Biege <thomas at suse.de>
(#136169)
----------- cut here --------------------------
This is the very same information you'll get when you query the rpm's
changelog.
Hope this helps :)
Jorge
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