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osager

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From: France

Registered: 2011-04-20

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how to see release notes with pacman

Hi all:

Like many fellow archers, i use pacman to update my softwares each day
often there's update such as this:
foo-1.1 ---> foo.1.2

i wonder if there's a way to see what has been updated from foo-1.1 to foo-1.2
or release note
explaining bug fixes or new features etc

something like pacman -Log foo

jasonwryan

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From: .nz

Registered: 2009-05-09

Posts: 30,426

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Re: how to see release notes with pacman

You can use the -c switch with a query:

-c, --changelog
View the ChangeLog of a package if it exists.

Note the if it exists...

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loafer

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Registered: 2009-04-14

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Re: how to see release notes with pacman

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=70557

edit: Jason beat me ...

Last edited by loafer (2011-04-23 20:07:39)

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lagagnon

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Re: how to see release notes with pacman

Not that I know of with pacman per se, but here: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=-last_update , click on the package name, then choose "Package actions" to see all sorts of detail.

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osager

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From: France

Registered: 2011-04-20

Posts: 22

Re: how to see release notes with pacman

thanks everyone

i do know that i can go to the package website to check out the changelog
but it'd be really nice to access this directly from pacman so that i know whether to upgrade a package or not
or that i will become aware of any new features immediately

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: how to see release notes with pacman

thanks everyone

i do know that i can go to the package website to check out the changelog
but it'd be really nice to access this directly from pacman so that i know whether to upgrade a package or not
or that i will become aware of any new features immediately

You want to update your system often. If there's a user action needed, you will be informed about it after the package gets installed (like pacman 3.5.0 pacman-db-upgrade).

Sharopo

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Registered: 2013-05-01

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Re: how to see release notes with pacman

Sharopo

edit: oops... why is there no way to delete posts?

Last edited by Sharopo (2013-05-03 21:57:16)

Inxsible

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Registered: 2008-06-09

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Re: how to see release notes with pacman

Sharopo

edit: oops... why is there no way to delete posts?

you can report the post and one of the mods will delete it for you. Also no necrobumping..

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