On Wed, 2012-08-15 at 11:55 -0600, 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

Install yum-plugin-changelog!

Volker Fröhlich