Yum updates and release notes

Mostafa Z. Afgani mostafa.afgani at world.iu-bremen.de
Tue May 3 14:02:09 UTC 2005


Mike McGrath wrote:
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> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com 
>>[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Paul Howarth
>>Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 8:47 AM
>>To: For users of Fedora Core releases
>>Subject: Re: Yum updates and release notes
>>
>>Mike McGrath wrote:
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>>>I'm looking for an easy way to find where (website) or how (command
>>>line) to view the release notes associated with updates 
>>
>>done via Yum.
>>
>>>Anyone know any?
>>
>>You mean something like this?:
>>
>>$ rpm -q --changelog packagename
>>
>>Paul.
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> 
> That will work, is there any way with yum to find out before one
> actually does the update?  I suppose I could run it with download only
> and run a changelog on the package before I install it.
> 
> 	-Mike
> 
You could always head over to the Fedora-Announce-List archives and 
lookup the changelog there.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/

Ofcourse this is only good for official Fedora updates...

-M




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