zypperdiff

This small utility is inspired by apt-listchanges for listing changes when updating packages with zypper.

It first downloads with zypper all packages to be installed. Then it shows in a pager (less, most, etc) the changelog difference (thus what's new) for each package. Finally, when the user has reviewed the changes, it asks if the packages must be installed.

Install

wget https://github.com/bubbleguuum/zypperdiff/master/zypperdiff && chmod +x zypperdiff

Then move file somewhere in your PATH.

Usage

Use the same zypper arguments that results in installing packages. Examples:

• zypperdiff up
• zypperdiff dup
• zypperdiff in bash zsh
• zypperdiff inr

No need to invoke with sudo as the script already uses it to invoke zypper.

IMPORTANT: running this script always clears the package cache in /var/cache/zypp !

Config

Optionally, you can create file ~/.config/zypperdiff/config and add

enable_log=y

to save changelog diffs in ~/.config/zypperdiff/logs whenever you proceed to install packages

Example diff output:

========================================================================

libbluetooth3: Bluetooth Libraries

========================================================================

* Tue Jun 25 2019 Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@suse.com>
- Add avinfo to bluez-test, useful for debugging.
- Only BuildRequires pkgconfig(ell) on Tumbleweed.
- Add bluez-5.50-a2dp-backports.patch: A2DP fixes for newer codecs
  (upstream backport).
    
  
    
========================================================================

libbz2-1: The bzip2 runtime library

========================================================================

* Fri Jun 28 2019 Martin Pluskal <mpluskal@suse.com>
- Update bug reference
- Fix downloaded patches

* Thu Jun 27 2019 Bjørn Lie <bjorn.lie@gmail.com>
- Update to version 1.0.7:
  * Fix undefined behavior in the macros SET_BH, CLEAR_BH, &
    ISSET_BH.
  * bzip2: Fix return value when combining --test,-t and -q.
  * bzip2recover: Fix buffer overflow for large argv[0].
  * bzip2recover: Fix use after free issue with outFile
    (CVE-2016-3189).
  * Make sure nSelectors is not out of range (CVE-2019-12900
    bsc#1139083)
- Drop patches fixed upstream:
  * bzip2-unsafe_strcpy.patch.
  * bzip2-1.0.6-CVE-2016-3189.patch.
- Refresh patches with quilt.