On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 10:01 +1000, Tess wrote: > I've been asked by my supervisor why yum check-update can't provide the > change log info when it notifies of new updates available, without > having to access another site to see what the patch will do first before > proceeding with a yum update. > > I'm thinking this is beyond the scope of yum and within the realm of the > individual package developers, however has it been considered before? If > the change log could be viewed "verbosely" as an optional parameter, I > guess this would keep him happy! > in yum 2.1.X - using the repomd metadata modules (http://linux.duke.edu/metadata) yum generate-rss will dump the last 3 changelogs for the most recent packages. the concept of 'most recent packages' is in flux at the moment, though. :) -sv
