Server Gremlin wrote:

Steve Rigler wrote:

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On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 11:53 -0400, Server Gremlin wrote:

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Hello CentOS users,

Is there any sort of package tracking system for CentOS?

I'm used to Debian where I can view a changelog for each *Debian*

specific package. This is great because I can see specifically what has been fixed and what known issues remain from release to release in the Debian package, which is subtly different from the upstream release. For instance, I can see what's changed from "apache2.1-debian.deb" to "apache2.2-debian.deb" by using the Debian Package Tracking System. (I'm fudging the package names, but you get the idea). Is there anything like that in CentOS?

Thanks,

• SG

Maybe this does what you want: "rpm -q 'package name' --changelog"

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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)

Thanks,

• SG

There is a yum plugin called changelog (yum-changelog) that can do this in CentOS-5 ... the version for centos-4 does not work well ... the version for centos-5 is much better.

yum install yum-changelog

Then ...

man yum-changelog

Jim Perrin wrote:

On 8/28/07, Server Gremlin servergremlin@gmail.com wrote:

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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?

Server Gremlin wrote:

Steve Rigler 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)

I am with you. Submit a feature request, maybe someone implements this. I also miss in RHEL and rebuilds something like "apt-listbugs". It lists you known bugs, before you install the software. "apt-listbugs" is a command line interface that query's Debian Bug Tracking System -> you don't need to open a web browser.

On Tuesday 28 August 2007, Server Gremlin 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?

rpm -qip --changelog <path/to/package-file>

This even works with mirror URLS (this is a single line below): rpm -qp --changelog http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/4/updates/i386/RPMS/bind-9.2.4-27.0.1.e...

Produces: warning: http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/4/updates/i386/RPMS/bind-9.2.4-27.0.1.e...: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 443e1821 * Thu Jul 19 2007 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 20:9.2.4-27.0.1.el4 - fixed cryptographically weak query id generator (CVE-2007-2926)

* Wed Jan 31 2007 Martin Stransky stransky@redhat.com - 20:9.2.4-24.EL4 - fixed a multilib regression

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etc.

The yum changelog plugin will work far more smoothly; but if you know the URL to the package, rpm -qp --changelog will work just fine.