On 09/30/2010 05:45 PM, Richard Fearn wrote: > Hi, > > I have yum-updatesd installed on a headless Fedora server, so every so > often I get the email saying there are updates available. > > The email itself doesn't tell me much about the updates (e.g. for > iproute tonight it said it was a "bugfix"). Running yum update on the > server doesn't tell me much either. > > In the past I modified yum-updatesd-helper to look in the > package-announce list archives > (http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/) to find > each update, and to build a bodhi search URL, using the package > name/version. Then there were at least 1 or 2 links in the > yum-updatesd email that I could click on to get some more information. > > Is there a more standard way of getting this info? (Not the links, but > the information about the updates.) You could download the RPMs (yumdownloader?) and look at changelogs: rpm -q --changelog -p <packagename.rpm> I seem to rememeber people talking about a way to do it directly from yum without downloading the package, but I don't remember the details.

 yum install yum-security

...there is also a changelog plugin/command