Re: Freshrpms.net concerns.

On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 07:39:05AM -0700, Bill Anderson wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 13:15, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 13:15:22 -0500, Lamar Owen wrote:
> ...
> > > And that's what changelogs are for. 
> > 
> > What a great idea! :-/ Let package users search through spec
> > changelogs to find out whether there's anything special about a
> > package. Because you and me do that, it should not be *the*
> > recommended way.
> 
> Actually, I think RPM itself should provide an option to get that
> changelog out. If it were (perhaps just the changes from the last
> release) then the tools could provide that information.

rpm provides --changelog for this, examples:

rpm -q --changelog XFree86 | head
rpm -qp --changelog package.rpm | head

> But that's a discussion for a separate list (whatever it is). 
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