On 16 Jul 2001, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>> "d" == doc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> d> Thank You! I shoulda tried that. I didn't, and stand corrected on the
> d> documentation issue.
>
> You're welcome. But this brings an idea to mind: wouldn't it be nice if
> you could do "rpm -q --releasenotes sendmail"? It doesn't have to be much,
> but when important functionality of a package changes fundamentally, there
> should be a way to ask the package what happened. Even incorporating the
> text from RELEASE-NOTES into the changelog would be enough.
>
> - J<
Yeah, that'd work. But, being the intransigent jerk I clearly am, I
still maintain that the most accessible and intuitive answer would be
for the output of "rpm -qd sendmail" to include a "ChangeLog" or a
"README.RedHat".
That --changelog switch is cool, but I bet the percentage of RedHat
admins that would use it is close to single digits. I tend to want to
use the existing mechanisms instead of further kludging up the man page.
Maybe I should stipulate that I don't expect Durham to recall 7.1 and
fix it. Or even release an update. I'd just like to see RH consider -
for the future - that the optimization & customization they do needs to
be clearly and even redundantly documented.
And maybe even add a note in the online (www.redhat.com) Reference
Guide.
See ya later,
Doc
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