Add changelogs to the packages in the repository

[Christian Jorgensen]

It would be nice to have changelogs for the packages in the repository.

When yum presents upgrades for installed packages, there is just a version number - no information of what is changed in the package. This information could be useful in determining whether to install the upgrade or not - it may break existing code instead of fixing issues...

Even just a link to a changelog in the common open source code on which the package is based would be useful.

[Christian Jorgensen]

I just found the package yum-plugin-changelog in the repository, which by the description seems to provide the exact function that I requested.

I installed the package with success - but it does not seem to have any effect:

yum changelog
No such command: changelog. Please use /QOpenSys/pkgs/bin/yum --help

Am I doing something wrong?

[Kevin Adler]

We've started to add changelogs to packages. A handful are available now and more will have changelogs added as we update the packages.

To use any of the yum-plugin-* packages, plugins need to be enabled in yum need to be enabled in yum by adding plugins=1 to /QOpenSys/etc/yum.conf first.

[Christian Jorgensen]

Adding plugins=1 to the yum config file did the trick - thanks!