> On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 11:18 PM Simon Matter via CentOS
> <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 2:54 PM Kenneth Porter <shiva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Is there some way to see the RPM changelog entries for a prospective
>> yum
>> >> update? Ideally I'd like to see just the entries that are newer than
>> the
>> >> version of the package I already have.
>> >>
>> >> I saw a new kernel in today's yum-cron email and I'd like to know
>> what
>> >> it's
>> >> about and how urgent the issue is for me.
>> >
>> > You may want to look into git.centos.org. For example, spec file diff
>> > for the latest C7 kernel update can be seen here:
>> >
>> > https://git.centos.org/rpms/kernel/c/c53828b00fb26a7f96b149eef5e220a5ed4cc4e5?branch=c7#_5
>>
>> Hi Akemi,
>>
>> Thanks for the hint about git.centos.org.
>> But, is there some yum/dnf utility which can show the changelog changes?
>> If not, then I may expand one of my rpm tools to do it.
>>
>> Simon
>
> yum -q --changelog xxx.rpm
>
> will show the changelog.
On CentOS 8 there is also
dnf check-upgrade --changelog
but I liked to have a tool which works on older distribution as well.
Therefore I've made 'pkgchangelog' which generates changelogs like the one
shown below. It's available here:
http://www.invoca.ch/pub/packages/pkgmonitor/public/pkgchangelog
Regards,
Simon
[root@dhcp-1-158 ~]# yum --quiet check-update | pkgchangelog --stdin 2>
/dev/null
================================================================================
Packages sharing changelog of source `bind':
bind-export-libs.x86_64
bind-libs-lite.x86_64
bind-libs.x86_64
bind-license.noarch
bind-utils.x86_64
python3-bind.noarch
Changelog for version `9.11.13-5.el8_2' -> `9.11.13-6.el8_2.1'
* Tue Aug 04 2020 Tomas Korbar <tkorbar@xxxxxxxxxx> - 32:9.11.13-6.1
- Validate configuration files with CIDRs host bits set (#1865785)
* Fri May 22 2020 Petr Menšík <pemensik@xxxxxxxxxx> - 32:9.11.13-5.1
- Add CVE tests to codebase
================================================================================
Packages sharing changelog of source `device-mapper-multipath':
device-mapper-multipath-libs.x86_64
device-mapper-multipath.x86_64
kpartx.x86_64
Changelog for version `0.8.3-3.el8' -> `0.8.3-3.el8_2.3'
* Tue Jul 21 2020 Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@xxxxxxxxxx> 0.8.3-3.3
- Add 0022-libmultipath-fix-files-read-from-config_dir.patch
* Fix for bz #1858993. Only read files ending in .conf
- Resolves: bz #1858993
* Fri Jul 17 2020 Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@xxxxxxxxxx> 0.8.3-3.2
- Bump release number for rebuild
- Resolves: bz #1856944
* Wed Jul 15 2020 Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@xxxxxxxxxx> 0.8.3-3.1
- Add 0020-libmultipath-make-dm_get_map-status-return-codes-sym.patch
- Add 0021-multipathd-fix-check_path-errors-with-removed-map.patch
* The above 2 patches fix bz #1856944. multipathd handles external
device removal better.
- Resolves: bz #1856944
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