Re: Freshrpms.net concerns.

On 17 Nov 2003 07:39:05 -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.

Pardon?

  rpm --query --changelog PACKAGENAME

exists already. The problem is, it doesn't contain end-user relevant
entries. And if the package maintainer updates the package often or if the
packaged software is huge, the size and number of spec changelog entries
can be overwhelming.

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