hi folks, i'm a brand new gentoo user and i have to say this system is pretty nifty. i wouldn't have believed it possible to build a usable system from source in <a day on a pII-300 with not much memory, but gentoo did it. i guess having very well defined usage patterns and knowing which 20 programs i actually use helped keep my system svelte at around 800MByte including an untarred kernel and xfree86 source+obj tree... (ok, i admit it, i cheated and injected the binary openoffice package, since that took 6 hours to build on my 8x faster/6xmore mem machine at work)
anyhow, i write primarily not to praise gentoo, but to ask a question. i'm still marvelling at the shiny emerge sync ; emerge -uv world process that keeps me at the front edge of things, so i do it almost daily. i'm wondering if there's an easy way to see what's changed in a package between the last release and the current release? (for instance, my window manager ratpoison wants to be upgraded from the installed 1.2.2 to 1.2.2-r1. this sounds like a tiny change. i'd like to see if it's worth listening to my disk grind for 20 minutes.) it seems likely that i can grab the newer ebuild and diff it against whatever's still cached from the old build. i'd welcome instructions in that direction if there's no better tool. seems like emerge or qpkg probably has some way to show me the changelog, but i can't seem to find it in the docs. thanks in advance for any advice. _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux