The internet is full of tips on how to read the changelog from an RPM package you have installed.<\/p>\n
How do you read the changelog from a .rpm file before you install it?<\/p>\n
The answer is amazingly simple:<\/p>\n
Anything you can query from an installed package with rpm -q you can query from a file with -p.<\/p>\n So why is the answer hard so to find? Because the rpm man page describes The fact that there is a curly brace where there should be a square bracket tells me the maintainers of this man page don’t actually use it.<\/p>\n query-options Did you catch that?<\/p>\n Under select-options {<\/strong>-p,–package PACKAGE_FILE] should read [<\/strong>-p,–package PACKAGE_FILE] and the package flag should be under query-options as well.<\/p>\n You can file the bug report. I have work to do.<\/p>\n Did you find this post useful or have questions or comments? Please let me know!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The internet is full of tips on how to read the changelog from an RPM package you have installed. How do you read the changelog from a .rpm file before you install it? The answer is amazingly simple: rpm -q … Continue reading rpm -q --changelog -p \/path\/to\/file.rpm<\/code><\/p>\n-p,--package PACKAGE_FILE<\/code> under select-options, but leaves it out under query-options.<\/p>\n
\n select-options
\n [PACKAGE_NAME] [-a,--all] [-f,--file FILE]
\n [-g,--group GROUP] {-p,--package PACKAGE_FILE]
\n [--fileid MD5] [--hdrid SHA1] [--pkgid MD5] [--tid TID]
\n [--querybynumber HDRNUM] [--triggeredby PACKAGE_NAME]
\n [--whatprovides CAPABILITY] [--whatrequires CAPABILITY]<\/p>\n
\n [--changelog] [-c,--configfiles] [-d,--docfiles] [--dump]
\n [--filesbypkg] [-i,--info] [--last] [-l,--list]
\n [--provides] [--qf,--queryformat QUERYFMT]
\n [-R,--requires] [--scripts] [-s,--state]
\n [--triggers,--triggerscripts]
\n<\/code><\/p>\n