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[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday, June 21, 2011 14:07:14 Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
> On my computer I just like to update my 11.4 with the latest so I do a
> regular zypper dup.
> No big problems up to now but as I see the daily harvest of changes I just
> wonder if somebody could give me the story behind such changes. Today  e.g.
> there was a change for         libfm       0.1.14_rc2-82.1 ->
> 0.1.14_rc2-83.1 No idea what is using this lib  but I just wonder who

Check with rpm -q --changelog libfm the changes of the package.

The 82 -> 83 normally indicates some kind of change, the digits afterwards is 
for build numbers.


> thinks and decides to start changing e.g this lib and looking at the
> numbering it must have been a small change. sometimes the change is also
> to an earlier version. Has somebody put more changes into such a work and
> than found out that it was more than it should be?
> Is there place where I could look into the kitchen? Do not want to cook
> myself ;) but just would like to see the cook at work.

Are you really running plain 11.4 or do you have some additional repositories 
added?

For each package you can figure out why something was changed, e.g. using osc 
triggerreason,

Andreas
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