Rick Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 20:00 +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote: >> Rick Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> rpm -q --changelog MozillaFirefox |head >> * Sun Oct 29 2006 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> - Another fix for 214125, patch by Wolfgang Rosenauer. >> >> * Thu Oct 26 2006 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> - 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 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> 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 -- Andreas Jaeger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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