Am 24.01.2011 10:17, schrieb Dr Andrew C Aitchison:
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, Frank Lanitz wrote:
>
>> I'm looking for the 'correct way' to figure out what did change inside a
>> package once it comes up with e.g. yum check-update. Is this something
>> yum can help me with?
>
> There is a yum changelog plugin:
>     man yum-changelog yum-changelog.conf
>
> If
>     /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/changelog.conf
> contains
>     when=pre
> then
>     yum --changelog --downloadonly update
> seems to show the changes without installing the packages. 

OK. At least it looks a bit like what I was looking for. Will give it a
try -- thanks very much so far. 
In aptitude its only a hit onto C ;)

Cheers,
Frank