> I really like how rpmdrake has a changelog, but I hate how it > says rebuilt, > or upgraded to new version. It only says what mandrake did > to it. I want to > know what is actually new from program-0.2 to 0.3.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this sort of thing is really up to the package maintainer and/or distribution packaging policy. Yes, I too would find this information useful, but it would increase the size of the package changelogs trememdously, especially for things like the kernel, kde, hell.. just about anything. As much as I think this would make things a little nicer, I don't think it's going to be possible. I tend to live with the fact that I need to visit the package's website and look at the changelog, or install the package and read the changelog in /usr/share/doc/packagename. Maybe one day someone will add that feature to RPM (talk to Red Hat about that), possibly a second changelog; one for packaging changes (what we have now), and another for actual changes in the software/source/whatever. I could see it as being somewhat simple to implement; in the spec file, you specify the path to the changelog in the source (say, "kernel-2.4.12.tar.bz2:/docs/CHANGELOG") which will get extracted during package build and built into the binary rpm, so you could do an "rpm -qp --realchangelog packagename.rpm" and see it. I dunno, like I said, talk to Red Hat. =) Don Head SAIR LCA, CIW-P, i-Net+, Network+, A+ Systems Administrator [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Web Designer [ 1 314 650-4056 ] [ AIM - Don Wave ] [ ICQ - 18804935 ] [ Yahoo - Don_Wave ]
