[CentOS] Re: Backport uncertainty

[Tom Diehl]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Erek Dyskant wrote:

>
> On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 12:54 -0700, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
>> I need to know of my version of Postfix supports a feature, given rh
>> version numbers donÿÿt really tell you much I was trying to find an
>> errata on postfix or anything to let me know the real version of it.
> For the most part if it's a feature it's not added, and if it's a
> bug/security issue it is.
>
>>
>> How does one deal with this scenario? Is there a source of info to
>> determine this info?
> The way that I'd do it is download the srpm, and read the spec file's
> changelog.  Also, looking at the upstream's errata for postfix may tell
> you.

Instead of downloading the srpm why not just run rpm -q --changelog postfix | less
and read that?

If the rpm is not installed, do rpm -qp --changelog /path/to/postfix-blah.rpm  | less

Regards,

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