[Yum-devel] Feature request: yum changes

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Mon Dec 6 03:50:14 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 03:02 +0000, Paul Nasrat wrote:
> 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.
> 
Hear that Panu? you've got user requests! If you'd like for me to put it
up in download/misc on the yum website I'd be glad to.

Thanks
-sv





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