On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 15:46:58 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > It is a matter > > of convenience. You can download a package, take a look at the package > > changes, then extract the ChangeLog file, if included, and if you want to > > look at software changes, too. The spec changelog is even more important > > when already installed software doesn't work as expected and you need > > access to the package changelog quickly. > No, you are missing up a package's contents ChangeLog with the rpm's changelog. > ? > The only reason to look into an rpm's changelog is to find answers > questions related to "Why has this rpm been released?". As in whether any bugs were fixed, features added/removed, default configuration changed, important files relocated or dropped, ... there's a lot that makes sense to be mentioned in an rpm package %changelog. > Normally you won't find answers to "What has changed inside of the > package's contents." No, for that you see what %doc files are included and take a look at those. "rpm --query --docfiles ..."
