[Yum-devel] Feature request: yum changes

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Thu Dec 2 08:00:35 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 12:01 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> yum changes package
> 
> displays the changelog for package. if a package is already installed, 
> and if the tail of the changelog matches the installed package 
> changelog, display only the non-matching part.
> 
> this can be helpful in deciding whether to update or not.

Something someone on this list wrote - a python script called repoquery.
It let's you do fairly arbitrary queries of the metadata from a set of
repos.

Ask Panu to make it available publicly and it might be what you're
looking for.

-sv





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