[gentoo-user] How to read package changelogs?

[gentoo-user] How to read package changelogs?

[Spidey]

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That's one task that I find difficult to do in Gentoo. Should I mess with
temp folders in /var/tmp/portage to find changelogs there? I'd like
something easy to use as eix or equery, but since Gentoo just maintains
ebuild files I guess it doesn't mess with changelogs. I hope I'm wrong.

Claudio Roberto França Pereira (Spidey)
@spideybr
Engenharia de Computação - UFES 2006/1

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Re: [gentoo-user] How to read package changelogs?

[Canek Peláez Valdés]

On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Spidey <spideybr@gmail.com> wrote:
> That's one task that I find difficult to do in Gentoo. Should I mess with
> temp folders in /var/tmp/portage to find changelogs there? I'd like
> something easy to use as eix or equery, but since Gentoo just maintains
> ebuild files I guess it doesn't mess with changelogs. I hope I'm wrong.
>
> Claudio Roberto França Pereira (Spidey)
> @spideybr
> Engenharia de Computação - UFES 2006/1

emerge --changelog -p blah?

Regards.
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Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Re: [gentoo-user] How to read package changelogs?

[James Broadhead]

On 2 October 2011 07:06, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@gmail.com>
wrote:> emerge --changelog -p blah?
Oh wow. I'll be using that a lot from now on.

If only I'd read the portage changelog to find out when they added
this feature :P

Re: [gentoo-user] How to read package changelogs?

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

Am Sonntag 02 Oktober 2011, 01:13:54 schrieb Spidey:
> That's one task that I find difficult to do in Gentoo. Should I mess with
> temp folders in /var/tmp/portage to find changelogs there? I'd like
> something easy to use as eix or equery, but since Gentoo just maintains
> ebuild files I guess it doesn't mess with changelogs. I hope I'm wrong.
> 
> Claudio Roberto França Pereira (Spidey)
> @spideybr
> Engenharia de Computação - UFES 2006/1

which changelogs?

gentoo's changelogs (which are next to the ebuilds) or the software's 
changelogs (which can usually also found on their websites)?

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[gentoo-user] Re: How to read package changelogs?

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 10/02/2011 07:13 AM, Spidey wrote:
> That's one task that I find difficult to do in Gentoo. Should I mess
> with temp folders in /var/tmp/portage to find changelogs there? I'd like
> something easy to use as eix or equery, but since Gentoo just maintains
> ebuild files I guess it doesn't mess with changelogs. I hope I'm wrong.

You should be able to find them in /usr/share/doc/.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to read package changelogs?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sun, 2 Oct 2011 08:06:05 +0100, James Broadhead wrote:

> On 2 October 2011 07:06, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@gmail.com>
> wrote:> emerge --changelog -p blah?  
> Oh wow. I'll be using that a lot from now on.
> 
> If only I'd read the portage changelog to find out when they added
> this feature :P

You'd have to read a long way back, it's been there for many years.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

"Theory and practice are the same in theory, but different in practice"

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Re: [gentoo-user] How to read package changelogs?

[Spidey]

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I guess emerge --changelog will print ebuild changelogs, right?
I'll try /usr/share/doc, and if it's not enough, go for the package website
and find it there.

Thank you for the suggestions.

Claudio Roberto França Pereira (a.k.a. Spidey)
hardMOB - HTForum - @spideybr
Engenharia de Computação - UFES 2006/1

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