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Ilya

Member

From: Russia, Saint-Petersburg

Registered: 2007-08-16

Posts: 98

Changelogs

I see, that package xorg-server is constantly updated - good.
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- xorg-server-1.4.0.90-2
- xorg-server-1.4.0.90-3

Where can i get it's changelog? I need to know what was changed. Pacman's option -Qc doesn't work...

kishd

Member

Registered: 2006-06-14

Posts: 401

Re: Changelogs

This may help

http://cvs.archlinux.org/cgi-bin/viewcv … root=Extra

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Ilya

Member

From: Russia, Saint-Petersburg

Registered: 2007-08-16

Posts: 98

Re: Changelogs

Thanks, kishd. Is there a more convenient way to see changes?

And why package maintainers don't write changelogs, that can be viewed with pacman? Just asking.

Allan

Pacman

From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 11,390

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Re: Changelogs

> pacman -Qc xorg-server
xorg-server 1.4.0.90-2
error: No changelog available for 'xorg-server'.

Guess there is not an easier way...  I'd say these get left out of packages because they take time and there is the cvs record of what happened already.

Last edited by Allan (2007-12-24 07:46:55)

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shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: Changelogs

I usually check the CVS, but it's not very practical, especially for testing packages.
I think it might be reasonable to ask the developers of important packages to put a ChangeLog, but not sure if they think it's worth the time or not.

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kishd

Member

Registered: 2006-06-14

Posts: 401

Re: Changelogs

Using the info on this thread you could update the testing PKGBUILDs and browse them to see what has changed.

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=7154

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---for there is nothing either good or bad, but only thinking makes it so....
Hamlet, W Shakespeare