On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Nathan wrote:

> Is there some way to see at least a summary of why a package is being updated?
>
> In Gentoo, for example, every updated ebuild has changelog notes
> summarizing what/why/how the update is different than the previous
> version, and you can view them by running something like 'emerge
> --pretend --changelog (some-package)'.
>
> Is there anything like that for yum?  Specifically, I'm interested in
> what's changing in minor kernel updates, but it would be nice to find
> a way to do this with any package so I don't have to rely on Google so
> much.
>
> ~ Nathan
>


I know that you asked about yum but rpm can do it

   rpm -q --changlog <some installed package>

or

   rpm -qp --changlog <some rpm>

-Connie Sieh