Re: [opensuse] Changelogs in RPMs

Rick Friedman <rickfriedman@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 20:00 +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
Rick Friedman <rickfriedman@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

...

How can I go about finding the changes made from one package version to
another? (not just for the Firefox package but for all of them)

For just Firefox:

aj@x40:~> rpm -q --changelog MozillaFirefox |head
* Sun Oct 29 2006 - aj@xxxxxxx
- Another fix for 214125, patch by Wolfgang Rosenauer.

* Thu Oct 26 2006 - aj@xxxxxxx
- Fix gcc warnings about undefined operations, patch by
Robert O'Callahan.
- Update system-proxies.patch to fix error box (214125), patch by
Robert O'Callahan.

* Mon Oct 23 2006 - aj@xxxxxxx

For all changes: The ChangeLog on CD1 (or the DVD) contains the
changelog entries of all packages that are on the media,

Andreas, thanks for the help. At least now I can have some idea of what
has been changed. One other question though... is there any way to see
the changelog of a package BEFORE the package is installed? For example,
if I have version 1.2 of package foo installed, is there some way I can
see the changelog of of version 1.25 before installing it?

You can always check a single RPM with
rpm -q -p --changelog /somewhere/your.rpm

The -p makes rpm use the argument instead of the installed one.

As I said: For all changes use the ChangeLog file on the media,

Andreas
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