[CentOS] Viewing changelog for packages to be updated

Thu Aug 27 07:05:36 UTC 2020
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 11:18 PM Simon Matter via CentOS
<centos at centos.org> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 2:54 PM Kenneth Porter <shiva at sewingwitch.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Is there some way to see the RPM changelog entries for a prospective yum
> >> update? Ideally I'd like to see just the entries that are newer than the
> >> version of the package I already have.
> >>
> >> I saw a new kernel in today's yum-cron email and I'd like to know what
> >> it's
> >> about and how urgent the issue is for me.
> >
> > You may want to look into git.centos.org. For example, spec file diff
> > for the latest C7 kernel update can be seen here:
> >
> > https://git.centos.org/rpms/kernel/c/c53828b00fb26a7f96b149eef5e220a5ed4cc4e5?branch=c7#_5
>
> Hi Akemi,
>
> Thanks for the hint about git.centos.org.
> But, is there some yum/dnf utility which can show the changelog changes?
> If not, then I may expand one of my rpm tools to do it.
>
> Simon

yum -q --changelog xxx.rpm

will show the changelog.

Akemi