apt metadata

[Rocco Stanzione]

On Tuesday 28 March 2006 09:59, Derek Broughton wrote:

> >> As far as i can tell, apt doesn't provide a way to see the changelog of
> >> a pending update.
> >
> > Have you taken a look at 'aptitude changelog <package>' and the package
> > 'apt-listchanges'?
>
> Note that apt-listchanges doesn't actually let you see the changelogs until
> immediately before unpacking and setting up a downloaded package.
>
> "aptitude changelog" otoh downloads the package's changelog from your
> chosen mirror - not even relying on it being present on your system if the
> package is already installed - so you seem to need a current network
> connection. --

Awesome.  I hadn't thought to look outside the tools I regularly use.  And 
here I was building up a whole rant in my head about the metadata available 
on an rpm system vs. apt!  As long as it's available on the mirrors and there 
are tools to view it, it's better than rpm as far as I'm concerned because I 
only use the bandwidth if I ask for it.  Thanks!

Rocco Stanzione