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Bug 1235551 - [RFE] List changelogs before update.
Summary: [RFE] List changelogs before update.
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: dnf-plugins-core
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Marek Blaha
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
: 1294315 (view as bug list)
Depends On: 1066867
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-06-25 07:17 UTC by Frank Büttner
Modified: 2019-04-05 12:20 UTC (History)
14 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2019-04-05 12:20:48 UTC
Type: Bug
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Red Hat Bugzilla 1066867 0 low CLOSED [RFE] [api] Support package changelog. 2022-05-16 11:32:56 UTC

Internal Links: 1066867

Description Frank Büttner 2015-06-25 07:17:51 UTC 
Description of problem:
Under yum there exists an config option, so that an "yum update" will display all changelogs before installing.

/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/changelog.conf:

[main]
enabled=1

# Set to 'pre' or 'post' to see changes before or after transaction
when=pre
# Set to true, to always get the output (removes the cmd line arg)
always=true


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dnf-1.0.1-2.fc22.noarch

How reproducible:
every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. dnf update

Actual results:
Only the package name and version are displayed

Expected results:
That it is possible to see the changelogs for every package automatic.

Additional info:
I don't mean to call "dnf update info list" every time before an update, because this is inconvenient.
Comment 1 Radek Holy 2015-06-25 15:29:54 UTC 
Thank you for the report. This is basically a request to port the yum-changelog plugin. I also think that it might be handy. We should just decide whether it should go into dnf-plugins-core or dnf-plugins-extras.

The future assignee should note that so far, DNF/hawkey lacks the support for changelogs (see bug 1066867). But it does not mean that the plugin cannot be implemented without this support in DNF.
Comment 2 Honza Silhan 2016-01-04 13:05:26 UTC 
*** Bug 1294315 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2016-07-08 09:25:00 UTC 
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.
Comment 4 Fedora End Of Life 2016-07-19 15:02:12 UTC 
Fedora 22 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2016-07-19. Fedora 22 is
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of
Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. If you
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Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.
Comment 5 Frank Büttner 2016-07-19 15:26:34 UTC 
Same for F23
Comment 6 orion0205 2018-09-15 05:16:49 UTC 
This issue continues to annoy in F28.

Is this really blocked by bug 1066867?  It seems that bug 850912 indicates that "update info" support is available?  The full changelog is not needed here.

dnfdragora shows "update info" for packages before installation.  How much is really missing to have that available in a dnf plugin?
Comment 7 Marek Blaha 2018-09-18 07:48:43 UTC 
I think it really is blocked. We need to read changelogs from repository, before actual downloading the packages. However, work on packages changelog is almost finished.
Regarding showing changelogs before update - I tend to implement it as a switch of `dnf check-update --changelogs` command.
Comment 8 Marek Blaha 2019-04-05 12:20:48 UTC 
There is --changelogs switch for dnf check-update. So to check changelogs of packages which are going to be updated you can use command
$ dnf check-update --changelogs
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