Bug 721106

Summary:	changelog queries prefer older co-installed packages
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Garrett Holmstrom <gholms>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Panu Matilainen <pmatilai>
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Description Garrett Holmstrom 2011-07-13 18:24:24 UTC

Description of problem:
When ``rpm -q --changelog'' is called for a package that has more than one version installed, the resulting changelog seems to be that of the oldest version rather than the newest, where "oldest" means either "least recently installed" or "oldest e-v-r".  (I am not sure which, but I could find out if you wish.)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-4.8.1-5.fc14.x86_64

How reproducible:
When multiple kernels are installed

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -q kernel
2. rpm -q kernel --changelog | head -n 1
  
Actual results:
kernel-2.6.35.12-90.fc14.x86_64
kernel-2.6.35.13-91.fc14.x86_64
kernel-2.6.35.13-92.fc14.x86_64
* Fri Apr 22 2011 Kyle McMartin <kmcmartin> 2.6.35.12-90

Expected results:
kernel-2.6.35.12-90.fc14.x86_64
kernel-2.6.35.13-91.fc14.x86_64
kernel-2.6.35.13-92.fc14.x86_64
* Fri May 20 2011 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert> 2.6.35.13-92

Comment 1 Panu Matilainen 2011-07-19 08:50:58 UTC

Just like 'rpm -q kernel' returns all the installed kernel versions, 'rpm -q --changelog kernel' returns changelogs of all installed kernels, in whatever order they happen to be encountered in the rpmdb, which typically means oldest first. No bug here - if you want the changelog of a specific version, you need to specify the version, eg 'rpm -q --changelog kernel-2.6.35.13-92.fc14.x86_64'