On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 18:04 -0400, Przemek Klosowski wrote: > On 09/30/2010 05:45 PM, Richard Fearn wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have yum-updatesd installed on a headless Fedora server, so every so > > often I get the email saying there are updates available. > > > > The email itself doesn't tell me much about the updates (e.g. for > > iproute tonight it said it was a "bugfix"). Running yum update on the > > server doesn't tell me much either. > > > > In the past I modified yum-updatesd-helper to look in the > > package-announce list archives > > (http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/) to find > > each update, and to build a bodhi search URL, using the package > > name/version. Then there were at least 1 or 2 links in the > > yum-updatesd email that I could click on to get some more information. > > > > Is there a more standard way of getting this info? (Not the links, but > > the information about the updates.) > > You could download the RPMs (yumdownloader?) and look at changelogs: > > rpm -q --changelog -p <packagename.rpm> > > I seem to rememeber people talking about a way to do it directly from > yum without downloading the package, but I don't remember the details. repoquery -q --changelog pkgname -sv -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
