Pacman update information

genisis300 · 2009-02-25 15:45:19

I was wondering is there a way to see what changes have been made to a package to considire it and update? is it a bug fix improvement etc?

Cheers
Matthew

Surgat_ · 2009-02-25 17:18:25

If it is only a pkgrel change (upstream version is the same as the previous one, only changes the last number of the package version) you can see the changes in the PKGBUILD and/or .install, etc. by clicking on View SVN entries on the package web page, for example:

http://svn.archlinux.org/packages/extra … ostgresql/

When you click on View SVN entries you can see all the files used to build the package and how they have changed. If it is a new version of the upstream package you should look upstream for a release note or something like that.

genisis300 · 2009-02-25 20:28:04

is there a way to make this information avaliable to pacman so you can query what the update is for?

mcmillan · 2009-02-25 21:53:55

There is the -Qc option, but that only works for packages that have already been installed and even that seems to be not being populated by most packagers (I just did a quick search, looks like 57 of my 700 installed packages have changelogs).

It seems like I remember this discussion comes up every couple months. Here's the I think the most recent one, as well as a feature request here

genisis300 · 2009-02-25 23:58:25

sorry i didn't realise that this had come up before,

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#1 2009-02-25 15:45:19

Pacman update information

#2 2009-02-25 17:18:25

Re: Pacman update information

#3 2009-02-25 20:28:04

Re: Pacman update information

#4 2009-02-25 21:53:55

Re: Pacman update information

#5 2009-02-25 23:58:25

Re: Pacman update information

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