yum question

[Paul W. Frields]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 11:29:49PM -0400, Mail Lists wrote:
>    If there are available updates - it would be nice to know what the
> changes are - ie show the changelog of the update - is there an option
> in yum to show the changelog ? Or must we download the rpm and query it
> by hand ?

If you have the "yum-utils" package installed, you can use the
"repoquery" command to read information from the repositories without
installing or downloading full packages:

  repoquery --verbose --changelog <package_name> | less

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