Re: yum question

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Todd Zullinger wrote:
Paul W. Frields wrote:
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

There is also a yum-changelog package which adds a --changelog option
to yum.  The output looks something like this:

# yum --changelog update
[...]
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package audit-libs.i386 0:1.7.5-1.fc9 set to be updated
---> Package audit-libs-python.i386 0:1.7.5-1.fc9 set to be updated
---> Package audit.i386 0:1.7.5-1.fc9 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Changes in packages about to be updated:

audit-libs-1.7.5-1.fc9.i386, audit-1.7.5-1.fc9.i386, audit-libs-python-1.7.5-1.fc9.i386
* Mon Aug 25 18:00:00 2008 Steve Grubb <sgrubb@xxxxxxxxxx> 1.7.5-1
- Update system-config-audit to 0.4.8
- Whole lot of bug fixes - see ChangeLog for details
- Reimplement auditd main loop using libev
- Add TCP listener to auditd to receive remote events

It doesn't seem to work with "yum --changelog check-update" which would be useful because I could run it overnight and pick changes which are critical on a given system, but certainly check-update and repoquery can be linked by a small script which will do the job.

Many thanks for pointing this out, it slipped by me, and perhaps a lot of others as well.

--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
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