Rick Friedman
On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 20:00 +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
Rick Friedman
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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:
aj@x40:~> rpm -q --changelog MozillaFirefox |head * Sun Oct 29 2006 - aj@suse.de - Another fix for 214125, patch by Wolfgang Rosenauer.
* Thu Oct 26 2006 - aj@suse.de - 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 - aj@suse.de
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, aj@suse.de, 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