yum question

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 18:21:54 -0500,
  Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> 
> Are you looking for the package specific update notes? If so you either
> need to get that from the rpm package or from koji. The info isn't in the
> meta data so yum couldn't access it until after it had downloaded the rpms
> in any case.

Based on other responses, it looks like I was wrong and you can get the
changelog data without downloading the rpms.