From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ds1qf-0002h9-TA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:13:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6BHC5U9019523; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:12:05 GMT Received: from smtp14.wxs.nl (smtp14.wxs.nl [195.121.6.28]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6BH7ZVw009073 for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:07:35 GMT Received: from [10.0.0.150] (ip3e83ab52.speed.planet.nl [62.131.171.82]) by smtp14.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 2 (built Jul 14 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IJH00IHH3LTZE@smtp14.wxs.nl> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 19:08:17 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 19:08:04 +0200 From: Holly Bostick Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] what's new with all those new packages? In-reply-to: <42D2A166.3060004@cisco.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <42D2A774.4050406@planet.nl> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: nl-NL, nl, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050624) X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 References: <20050711123427.GA2457@daniel> <42D29C4C.409@ucla.edu> <42D2A166.3060004@cisco.com> X-Archives-Salt: bd1d5b34-2fb7-4ec9-bb6d-26895903d3f5 X-Archives-Hash: 7e8b9097b11fcc68d3fcc65b48eb8850 Roy Wright schreef: > emerge --pretend --changelog > > will display the change log(s). I usually do > emerge -uDNv world -pl > then if I like it, just delete the -pl to do the merge. > > Have fun, > Roy > Well that's all very well and good, but a great deal of the time the changelog only says something like 'version bump'-- because it's a *Gentoo* ChangeLog, not the *application* changelog. Which, if you're interested enough to want to know the contents of, you should go to the application's homepage (linked from the ebuild, or packages.gentoo.org), where it is usually published. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list