<div dir="ltr"><div>The customer requesting this is using RHEL 6.4. Gnome-PackageKit-3.10 is bleeding edge stuff that won't materialize for them until RHEL 7 gets into prod (if/when) that happens.<br><br>So, I guess I'm stuck writing scripts to hit rpm -q --changelog for the time being....oh well..<br>
<br></div>thx.<br>Wendell<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Matthias Klumpp <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matthias@tenstral.net" target="_blank">matthias@tenstral.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">2014/1/7 Richard Hughes <<a href="mailto:hughsient@gmail.com">hughsient@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div class="im">> On 7 January 2014 12:32, Wendell MacKenzie <<a href="mailto:mackendw@gmail.com">mackendw@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Would it be possible to add the ability into the backend of PackageKit so<br>
>> that it implements the ability to return a given packages change log<br>
>> history? An extension to the Selection menu in gpk-application would use<br>
>> this and present the results similar to the manner in which getfiles request<br>
>> does.<br>
><br>
> I think this might be useful for tech users, but I don't think the<br>
> ChangeLog format is descriptive enough as an abstraction, for<br>
> instance:<br>
><br>
> * What format is the date? What timezone is it? UTC?<br>
> * What is the presentation format? e.g. markdown?<br>
> * How do we specify how many entries to return? By date / by number?<br>
> * Do we specify the user responsible for the change? Do we include the<br>
> email address?<br>
> * Do we return automatic / cosmetic changes?<br>
><br>
> I also don't know if this kind of data is available for debian-derived<br>
> distros, although is available for rpm-based distros as it's in the<br>
> rpmdb. I think just showing an unformatted ChangeLog entry in a GUI is<br>
> going to look aweful for lot of tools.<br>
</div>Debian supports all of this (Debian changelogs are written in Markdown)<br>
See <a href="http://ftp-master.metadata.debian.org/changelogs//main/g/gnome-packagekit/gnome-packagekit_3.10.1-1_changelog" target="_blank">http://ftp-master.metadata.debian.org/changelogs//main/g/gnome-packagekit/gnome-packagekit_3.10.1-1_changelog</a><br>
for an example.<br>
All Debian changelogs have to be in this format, which is human- and<br>
machine-readable.<br>
Cheers,<br>
Matthias<br>
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