On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Nathan <[log in to unmask]> 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

Typical.  I just sent the email, and then I tried a different Google
search that I thought of and I think I found the answer:

http://linux.die.net/man/1/yum-changelog

Doing a yum search for changelog turns up the package:

yum-plugin-changelog

I'll give that a try.

~ Nathan