[CentOS] Package Tracking System

[Jim Perrin]

On 8/28/07, Server Gremlin <servergremlin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks guys, that is pretty much what I want.  But what if I want to see
> the changelog for a package that I don't have installed?  I'd like to
> look at the changelog for a package available via yum before I upgrade
> my existing package to it.  When I did a "rpm -q --changelog mypackage",
> that only showed changes up to my currently installed version.  (Which
> makes sense if this is just looking on my local machine, which I assume
> it is)

You can do this with repoquery, which is in the yum-utils package.
repoquery --changelog foo  will show you the changelog for package foo

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