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yum-changelog

Synopsis

The yum-changelog package

Description

yum-changelog(1) is a Yum plugin for viewing package changelogs before/after updating. yum will invoke yum-changelog(1) plugin if the –changelog option or the changelog command is used with yum.

Options

–changelog: Show changelog delta of updated packages

Commands

changelog: Show changelog data of packages listed (same format as the list command). The first argument is required and is either "all" for all the changelog entries, a date for the changelog entries since a specified point in time or a number for a given number of changelog entries.

Files

/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/changelog.conf

The system wide configuration file. See yum-changelog.conf(5) for more information.

Examples

# yum changelog 2008-Jan yum\*
Listing changelogs since: 2008-01-18

yum-versionlock-1.1.11-1.fc8.noarch installed
* Wed Jan 30 17:00:00 2008 Tim Lauridsen <timlau [at] fedoraproject.org>
– mark as 1.1.11

changelog stats. 33 pkgs, 12 source pkgs, 1 changelog

# yum update ktechlab –changelog
Loading "changelog" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
[..]
Resolving Dependencies
–> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
—> Package ktechlab.i386 0:0.3-6 set to be updated
–> Running transaction check

Changes in packages about to be updated:

ktechlab – 0.3-6.i386
* Wed Nov 22 23:00:00 2006 Chitlesh Goorah – 0.3-6
– Rebuilt due to new gpsim-devel release

Bugs

There are of course no bugs, but should you find any, you should first consult the FAQ section on http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/Faq and if unsuccessful in finding a resolution contact the mailing list: yum-devel [at] lists.baseurl.org. To file a bug use http://bugzilla.redhat.com for Fedora/RHEL/Centos related bugs and http://yum.baseurl.org/report for all other bugs.

Availability

yum-changelog is available via:

# yum install yum-changelog

Authors

Chitlesh Goorah <chitlesh [at] fedoraproject.org>
Panu Matilainen <pmatilai [at] laiskiainen.org>
James Antill <james [at] and.org>

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