Essential updates?

[William Hooper]

Jorge Fábregas said:
> On Thursday 30 December 2004 9:34 am, William Hooper wrote:
>
>> The changelog is part of the RPM, so it isn't available until after you
>>  download the updated RPM.
>
> So is the package description and it's available there.
>
>
> Now I have a question...package descriptions are contained in the header
> files yum uses?

Yes.  And it appears I was mistaken, there is part of the changelong in
there too.  I must have been thinking of the comment that the _advisory_
info wasn't there:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110711

Perhaps you can file an RFE to include changelog info?  I didn't look too
hard but I don't see and existing RFE.

> I thought it only had a database of package names with
> their versions...

There is a lot more than that.

-- 
William Hooper