How do I check the changes of a proposed package update?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- yum / dnf
Issue
- How to know all changelogs of updates package?
- Is it possible to check a package changelog without install it?
Resolution
RHEL 6 or 7
- Install the
yum-changelogplugin. Theyum-changelogis a Yum plugin for viewing package changelogs before/after updating. The yum will invoke yum-changelog plugin if the--changelogoption or the changelog command is used with yum.
[root@test01 ~]# yum install yum-plugin-changelog
- To list the changelog for all packages, run:
[root@test01 ~]# yum changelog all
Loaded plugins: changelog, product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-
: manager
Listing all changelogs
==================== Installed Packages ====================
libcroco-0.6.8-5.el7.x86_64 installed
* Fri Jan 24 10:00:00 2014 Daniel Mach <dmach@redhat.com> - 0.6.8-5
- Mass rebuild 2014-01-24
* Tue Jul 16 09:00:00 2013 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com> - 0.6.8-3
- Disable strict aliasing, since the code is not strict-aliasing-clean
* Fri Nov 9 10:00:00 2012 Kalev Lember <kalevlember@gmail.com> - 0.6.8-1
- Update to 0.6.8
xinetd-2.3.15-12.el7.x86_64 installed
* Fri Jan 24 10:00:00 2014 Daniel Mach <dmach@redhat.com> - 2:2.3.15-12
- Mass rebuild 2014-01-24
* Mon Jan 6 10:00:00 2014 Jan Synáček <jsynacek@redhat.com> - 2:2.3.15-11
- fixup of the previous patch
- Related: #1037565
- Resolves: #1042357
* Fri Dec 27 10:00:00 2013 Daniel Mach <dmach@redhat.com> - 2:2.3.15-10
- Mass rebuild 2013-12-27
- To list the changelog of the specific package, run:
[root@test01 ~]# yum changelog tree
Loaded plugins: changelog, product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager
Listing all changelogs
==================== Available Packages ====================
tree-1.6.0-10.el7.x86_64 rhel-7-server-rpms
* Fri Jan 24 10:00:00 2014 Daniel Mach <dmach@redhat.com> - 1.6.0-10
- Mass rebuild 2014-01-24
* Fri Dec 27 10:00:00 2013 Daniel Mach <dmach@redhat.com> - 1.6.0-9
- Mass rebuild 2013-12-27
* Thu Jul 4 09:00:00 2013 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> - 1.6.0-8
- Handle large UID/GID values (bug #980945).
* Thu Apr 11 09:00:00 2013 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> - 1.6.0-7
- Document --du and --prune options in help output (bug #948991).
* Fri Feb 15 10:00:00 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.6.0-6
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_19_Mass_Rebuild
* Sun Jul 22 09:00:00 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.6.0-5
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
* Sat Jan 14 10:00:00 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.6.0-4
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Mass_Rebuild
* Mon Dec 5 10:00:00 2011 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 1.6.0-3
- Put LFS_CFLAGS in CFLAGS not CPPFLAGS so they actually get used
(bug #769655).
* Mon Jul 4 09:00:00 2011 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 1.6.0-2
- Don't strip the binary too early (bug #718456).
* Mon Jun 27 09:00:00 2011 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 1.6.0-1
- 1.6.0 (bug #716879).
- To list the changelog while the package is update, run:
[root@test01 ~]# yum update tuned --changelog
Loaded plugins: changelog, product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package tuned.noarch 0:2.5.1-4.el7_2.2 will be updated
---> Package tuned.noarch 0:2.5.1-4.el7_2.3 will be an update
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Changes in packages about to be updated:
ChangeLog for: tuned-2.5.1-4.el7_2.3.noarch
* Tue Feb 9 10:00:00 2016 Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad@redhat.com> - 2.5.1-4.3
- fixed traceback during restart attempt
resolves: rhbz#1305903
===============================================================================
tuned bug fix update
===============================================================================
Update ID : RHBA-2016:0545
Release :
Type : bugfix
Status : final
Issued : 2016-03-31 00:00:00
Bugs : 1305903 - Traceback during profile selection in inactive tuned
Description : The tuned packages contain a daemon that tunes system settings
: dynamically. It does so by monitoring the usage of
: several system components periodically.
:
: This update fixes the following bug:
:
: * Due to a bug, if the tuned-adm command was
: issued while the tuned service was not running,
: an attempt to automatically restart the tuned
: service failed with a traceback. The underlying
: source code has been patched to handle automatic
: restarting of the daemon correctly. As a result,
: restarting the tuned service no longer fails in
: the described situation. (BZ#1305903)
:
: Users of tuned are advised to upgrade to these
: updated packages, which fix this bug.
Dependencies Resolved
==================================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
==================================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Updating:
tuned noarch 2.5.1-4.el7_2.3 rhel-7-server-rpms 193 k
Transaction Summary
==================================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Upgrade 1 Package
Total download size: 193 k
Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
Downloading packages:
No Presto metadata available for rhel-7-server-rpms
tuned-2.5.1-4.el7_2.3.noarch.rpm | 193 kB 00:00:02
Running transaction check
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded
Running transaction
Updating : tuned-2.5.1-4.el7_2.3.noarch 1/2
Cleanup : tuned-2.5.1-4.el7_2.2.noarch 2/2
Verifying : tuned-2.5.1-4.el7_2.3.noarch 1/2
Verifying : tuned-2.5.1-4.el7_2.2.noarch 2/2
Updated:
tuned.noarch 0:2.5.1-4.el7_2.3
Complete!
RHEL 8 or later
- Install
dnf-plugins-corepackage, asyum-plugin-changelogis part of this package since RHEL 8.
[root@test01 ~]# yum install dnf-plugins-core
- To list the changelog for all packages, run:
[root@test01 ~]# yum changelog
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Last metadata expiration check: 1:57:01 ago on Wed Dec 10 09:24:18 2025.
Listing all changelogs
Changelogs for xinetd-2:2.3.15-24.el8.x86_64
* Mon Aug 05 00:00:00 2019 Jan Synáček <jsynacek@redhat.com> - 2:2.3.15-24
- fix covscan (#1607030)
* Tue May 22 00:00:00 2018 Jan Synáček <jsynacek@redhat.com> - 2:2.3.15-23
- fix compilation, missing rpc headers (#1580970)
* Mon Dec 04 00:00:00 2017 Jan Synáček <jsynacek@redhat.com> - 2:2.3.15-22
- remove build dependency on tcp_wrappers (#1518797)
[...]
- To list the changelog of the specific package, run:
[root@test01 ~]# yum changelog tree
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Last metadata expiration check: 0:06:47 ago on Wed Dec 10 11:26:54 2025.
Listing all changelogs
Changelogs for tree-1.7.0-15.el8.x86_64
* Wed Nov 07 00:00:00 2018 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 1.7.0-15
- fix programming mistakes detected by static analysis (#1602718)
* Fri Feb 23 00:00:00 2018 Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> - 1.7.0-14
- Use LDFLAGS from redhat-rpm-config
* Mon Feb 19 00:00:00 2018 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 1.7.0-13
- add explicit BR for the gcc compiler
[...]
Diagnostic Steps
- The more information can be found in package manual:
RHEL 6 or 7:
[root@test01 ~]# man yum-changelog
[root@test01 ~]# man yum-changelog.conf
RHEL 8 or later:
[root@test01 ~]# man dnf-changelog
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