plead for documentation for changes in redhat 6.2

2000-02-09 Thread Tony Nugent
I've just read on slashdot that the redhat 6.2 beta has been made available (although I haven't check for it myself). I've asked about this before, and now would be a good time to bring this issue up again... Can a CHANGES file be provided with this and every release (and pre-releases) of a new

Re: plead for documentation for changes in redhat 6.2

2000-02-09 Thread George Karabin
RPM provides a hook that might give you some of what you want. 'rpm --changelog -p RPM list will dump the changes associated with a list of packages. You can use 'diff' to compare the changes from an old release to a new release to see what's changed. I see two gotchas to this approach,

Re: plead for documentation for changes in redhat 6.2

2000-02-09 Thread George Karabin
Oops. The syntax ought to be 'rpm -q --changelog -p RPM package list'. I should have checked it before I sent it! George Karabin wrote: RPM provides a hook that might give you some of what you want. 'rpm --changelog -p RPM list will dump the changes associated with a list of packages. You