Updates announcements?

[Jorge Fábregas]

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