[Yum-devel] Feature request: yum changes

Paul Nasrat pauln at truemesh.com
Mon Dec 6 03:02:37 UTC 2004


On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 03:00:35AM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> 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.

Certainly I'd like to see it as well.

Paul



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