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This might below in the Newbie section, but here goes: I noticed that there is a new kernel package that was released today. Are there notes/changelogs kept for these packages? I went into the http interface for the package in the repo, but didn't see anything obvious. Thanks!
Last edited by graysky (2009-04-20 21:02:32)
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I imagine the svn commit message should, in theory, have some relevance.
http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/k … D?view=log
Not sure how well that holds in practice however.
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This answer bugs me too. Is there any thing at all.
[10:04:22 taavi@hyperion ~]$ sudo pacman -Syu
Password:
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra 452.7K 10.6M/s 00:00:00 [################################################] 100%
community 402.1K 10.6M/s 00:00:00 [################################################] 100%
multilib 22.5K 878.3K/s 00:00:00 [################################################] 100%
radeon is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
Targets (4): gdm-2.32.0-2 hyphen-2.7.1-1 python-3.1.3-1 python2-2.7.1-2
Total Download Size: 17.35 MB
Total Installed Size: 141.04 MB
Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
Is there a way to read what was changed for example in gdm? It doesn't have to be in pacman itself telling it, could be 3rd-party or web.
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Is there a way to read what was changed for example in gdm? It doesn't have to be in pacman itself telling it, could be 3rd-party or web.
You can visit the package's official website .
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True for upstream changes, but at this case I think Arch devs have patched gdm, wrong?
[10:42:08 taavi@hyperion ~]$ pacman -Q gdm
gdm 2.32.0-1
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One way could be opening Log of PKGBUILD from http://www.archlinux.org/packages/
Maybe there's a tool for it?
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maybe that's your chance to improve your hacker skill. write an python script, which is I guess beside *sh the most easiest way.
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Only some packages have changelogs. They can be viewed at any time:
QUERY OPTIONS
-c, --changelog
View the ChangeLog of a package. Not every package will provide one but it will be shown if available.
[karol@black ~]$ pacman -Qc htop
2009-09-21 Eric Belanger <eric@archlinux.org>
* htop 0.8.3-1
* Upstream update
* Built with vserver and openvz support (close FS#12755)
2008-12-09 Alexander Fehr <pizzapunk gmail com>
* htop-0.8.1-1:
* New upstream release
* New maintainer
* Added patch to fix FS#12235
* Enabled Unicode support
* Added ChangeLog
Last edited by karol (2010-12-04 21:05:23)
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Is the changelog something that has to be provided by the maintainer?
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Is the changelog something that has to be provided by the maintainer?
Yes.
I mean you don't *have to* add it if you're a maintainer, but the packages themselves don't come with one by default. The changelog is created manually by the maintainer.
Last edited by karol (2010-12-04 21:18:09)
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Well that explains why not all packages would have changelogs.
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True for upstream changes, but at this case I think Arch devs have patched gdm, wrong?
[10:42:08 taavi@hyperion ~]$ pacman -Q gdm gdm 2.32.0-1
pkgrel being bumped doesn't mean that we patch it. in most cases are simply rebuilds to link against new soname or a packaging bug
gdm changelog:
2.32.0-1->2.32.0-2 permission fixed for /var/lib/gdm from root:gdm to gdm:gdm
2.32.0-2>-2.32.0-3 patch to drop bonobo dependency that comes from gnome-panel-bonobo.
all this changes are well documented in the commit log. http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/package … g&isdir=1&
Last edited by wonder (2010-12-04 21:28:52)
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anonymous_user wrote:Is the changelog something that has to be provided by the maintainer?
Yes.
I mean you don't *have to* add it if you're a maintainer, but the packages themselves don't come with one by default. The changelog is created manually by the maintainer.
And very few official packages will have one as the vast majority of the developers find it a waste of time... especially given we are somewhat verbose in the svn commit message.
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For what it's worth, this question was answered in https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=206793, and the user submitted package called paclog was created.
I found it useful in this way:
$ paclog conky|head -10
Age Commit message Author
5 hours upstream update bisson
git-svn-id: file:///srv/repos/svn-packages/svn@266820
eb2447ed-0c53-47e4-bac8-5bc4a241df78
2015-12-06 C++11 ABI rebuild foutrelis
git-svn-id: file:///srv/repos/svn-packages/svn@253089
eb2447ed-0c53-47e4-bac8-5bc4a241df78
2015-11-19 upstream update bisson
git-svn-id: file:///srv/repos/svn-packages/svn@251434
eb2447ed-0c53-47e4-bac8-5bc4a241df78
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