On Wednesday 07 October 2009, John D. Mort wrote:
> I guess the fact that I'm actually paying attention to what's
> getting upgraded when I run updates is something of a milestone in
> my competency with linux. I just noticed that wget was going to
> get updated. Anyone know where I can look up what the change
> notes are for ubuntu package updates? My googlemancy has failed
> me.
There's a changelog that comes along with each package, which you can
view before installing using the package manager, which will download
the changelog and let you view it. Besides that you can also view it
after the fact in the documentation for the package (this is in fact a
package requirement, so they are always present) which are placed in
/usr/share/doc/<package_name>/changelog.gz
On a side note, if you install 'apt-listchanges' then you'll be
notified during package updates if the package maintainer placed a
warning inside of the NEWS.gz file of important behavioral changes
that need to be accounted for. These get locally emailed as well.
To illustrate, here's an example (slightly reformatted to get around
wordwrap):
mysql-dfsg-5.1 (5.1.38-1) unstable; urgency=low
* Please read http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/upgrading-
from-5-0.html
* Make sure to do a REPAIR TABLE on all tables that use UTF-8
and have a FULLTEXT index.
-- Christian Hammers <[email protected]> Sat, 4 Jul 2009 02:31:21
+0200
I'm also a big fan of 'apt-listbugs', which lists unfixed bugs of
severity "serious" or above and gives me an opportunity to stop the
upgrade before I get burnt if others already have and reported the
problem.
-- Chris
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Chris Knadle
[email protected]
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