[CentOS] Package Tracking System

Server Gremlin servergremlin at gmail.com
Tue Aug 28 21:54:43 UTC 2007


Jim Perrin wrote:
> 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
>
>   
I did not find a "yum-utils" in CentOS 4...  I guess maybe it's only in 
CentOS 5?

I also did not find "yum-changelog" in CentOS 4...  Are both of these 
only in CentOS 5, or are my repositories / searches messed up?



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