On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 22:45 +0100, Richard Fearn wrote: > Hi, > > I have yum-updatesd installed on a headless Fedora server, so every so > often I get the email saying there are updates available. > > The email itself doesn't tell me much about the updates (e.g. for > iproute tonight it said it was a "bugfix"). Running yum update on the > server doesn't tell me much either. > > In the past I modified yum-updatesd-helper to look in the > package-announce list archives > (http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/) to find > each update, and to build a bodhi search URL, using the package > name/version. Then there were at least 1 or 2 links in the > yum-updatesd email that I could click on to get some more information. > > Is there a more standard way of getting this info? (Not the links, but > the information about the updates.)
yum install yum-security ...then: yum updateinfo ... ...there is also a changelog plugin/command, if you want that too. But the updateinfo usually is good enough (and IMNSHO, you should log bugs if it isn't :). -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
