Re: Freshrpms.net concerns.

[Matthew Saltzman <mjs ces clemson edu>]

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Bill Anderson wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 13:15, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 13:15:22 -0500, Lamar Owen wrote:
> ...
> > > And that's what changelogs are for.
> >
> > What a great idea! :-/ Let package users search through spec changelogs to
> > find out whether there's anything special about a package. Because you
> > and me do that, it should not be *the* recommended way.
>
>
> Actually, I think RPM itself should provide an option to get that
> changelog out. If it were (perhaps just the changes from the last
> release) then the tools could provide that information.
>
> But that's a discussion for a separate list (whatever it is).

And a short discussion it would be, too.

rpm -q --changelog <package-name>
rpm -qp --changelog <package-file>

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		Matthew Saltzman

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