yum question

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 10:36 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 23:29 -0400, Mail Lists wrote:
> >> If there are available updates - it would be nice to know what the
> >> changes are - ie show the changelog of the update - is there an
> >> option in yum to show the changelog ? Or must we download the rpm
> >> and query it by hand ?
> > 
> > AFAIK the changelog is part of the rpm file set rather than the
> > headers, so you would have to download the rpm.
> 
> That header information is available in the repodata, so tools like
> yum and repoquery can get it for you without needing to download the
> rpm.

As I said, I thought the changelog wasn't part of the header data, but
apparently I was mistaken.

> In the case of small packages, downloading the rpm instead of the
> extra repodata files (which cover all packages) can very easily be the
> smaller download. :)

Of course :-)

poc