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Blaming FedoraBlaming FedoraPosted Apr 12, 2007 2:11 UTC (Thu) by mrons (subscriber, #1751)Parent article: Blaming Fedora
I think something Fedora could do better is to provide an easy way of telling their users what and how packages have been modified from upstream.
Doing an "rpm -q --changelog" often tells us about some patches that have been applied, but it's not the whole story.
Perhaps "rpm -qi" should provide a brief summary of any modifications from upstream?
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list of patches Posted Apr 14, 2007 13:32 UTC (Sat) by scottt (subscriber, #5028) [Link] The list of patches is available from the source rpm:rpmquery -pl coreutils-5.97-12.3.fc6.src.rpm ... coreutils-4.5.3-langinfo.patch coreutils-4.5.3-sysinfo.patch ....
I often just use the viewvc interface to peak at their CVS contents:
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