Re: Still confused about pure64 package changelogs
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I guess he wants to know before installing the package. Synaptic has the
feature he wants but, as he said, sometimes it takes a while (hours,
days?) until some changelogs are updated. However, it usually works
great and it was something many of us were hoping would be added to Debian.
Scott Ransom wrote:
| Have you ever used apt-listchanges? Sound like just what you
| are looking for.
|
| Scott
|
| Package: apt-listchanges
| Version: 2.57
| Priority: optional
| Section: utils
| Maintainer: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
| Depends: python (>= 2.3), apt (>= 0.5.3), python-apt, debconf,
| ucf (>= 0.28), debianutils (>= 2.0.2)
| Suggests: x-terminal-emulator, www-browser
| Architecture: all
| Filename:
| pool/unstable/main/amd64/a/apt-listchanges/apt-listchanges_2.57_all.deb
| Size: 47688
| MD5sum: a45613f74fe271afb4e6e8f10e09627e
| Description: Display change history from .deb archives
| apt-listchanges is a tool to show what has been changed in a
| new version of a Debian package, as compared to the version
| currently installed on the system. It does this by extracting
| the relevant entries from the Debian changelog file, and the
| NEWS.Debian file. . It can be run on several .deb archives at
| a time to get a list of all of the changes that would be
| effected by installing or upgrading a group of packages. It
| can be configured to do this automatically during upgrades
| using apt.
| installed-size: 336
|
|
|
| On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 04:04:14PM -0800, Larry Doolittle wrote:
|
|>Let me assure everyone before I start that I'm really happy with
|>debain pure64. Fast and solid.
|>
|>Most of the time, when I see a package ready to download with
|>apt-get upgrade, I can go to packages.debian.org, and find out
|>what changed and why. Every now and then, that doesn't work.
|>
|>Today, for instance, I see netbase is ready to upgrade, from
|>version 4.19 to version 4.20. The trouble is, looking at
|>packages.debian.org, the changelog only goes up to 4.19.
|>Now, netbase is kind of an important package, and I'd like
|>a way to read about the changes before I load it up.
|>
|>Another particular example is kernel-image-2.6.10-9-amd64-k8,
|>which doesn't even show up on packages.debian.org.
|>In that case, I downloaded the source package, and buried in
|>there I did indeed find a changelog that appeared up-to-date
|>(although with a typo in it).
|>
|>Do these changelogs appear on the net anywhere, in a way
|>such that I can avoid downloading the source every time?
|>This isn't Gentoo!
|>
|> - Larry
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Javier Kohen <jkohen@users.sourceforge.net>
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