On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 15:07 -0500, seth vidal wrote: > On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 21:46 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote: > > Back to the original topic: I think it is ok to remove the changelogs > > from the packages altogether provided that a equally easily accessible > > and working replacement to "rpm -q --changelog" is provided. But I > > don't have ideas how to implement that right now, sorry. > > May have a solution to that for you. Panu worked up a script using the > xml metadata to be able to do simple queries of the metadata like you > would with rpm -q Except that where does the changelog info get into the metadata? The packages, so if the info is removed from the packages... oops. :) Of course the changelog metada could be generated from cvs or such. > > repoquery --changelog yum > > worked for me. Oh well, since you advertised it publically I guess I could just as well make the blasted thing available finally :) It haven't touched it in quite a while but what little is there seems to still work: http://laiskiainen.org/repoquery/repoquery.py Note that you need to run "yum makecache" first for it to work (and without that you'd grow old waiting anyway) - Panu -
