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Re: Update



Hello Pedro!

On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 12:32:58PM +0000, Pedro M. (Morphix User) wrote:
> I suggest in Synaptic the user can see the description of the updates, 
> before installing it (not only the description of the total program ).
> 
> This is, include the more significant innovations.

|fernst@live:~$ apt-cache show apt-listchanges
|Package: apt-listchanges
|[...]
|Description: Display new Debian changelog entries 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, usually found in
| /usr/share/doc/package/changelog.Debian.gz
| .
| 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.

Using aptitude you can also download the changelog before even
downloading the new debs...

HTH,
Flo

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