On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Nathan <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there some way to see at least a summary of why a package is being updated? > > In Gentoo, for example, every updated ebuild has changelog notes > summarizing what/why/how the update is different than the previous > version, and you can view them by running something like 'emerge > --pretend --changelog (some-package)'. > > Is there anything like that for yum? Specifically, I'm interested in > what's changing in minor kernel updates, but it would be nice to find > a way to do this with any package so I don't have to rely on Google so > much. > > ~ Nathan
Typical. I just sent the email, and then I tried a different Google search that I thought of and I think I found the answer: http://linux.die.net/man/1/yum-changelog Doing a yum search for changelog turns up the package: yum-plugin-changelog I'll give that a try. ~ Nathan
