Often there’s a need to get changelog of RPM package. Here is a way to do that:
[root@playground ~]# rpm -qp --changelog kernel-2.6.41.9-1.fc15.x86_64.rpm | head * Fri Jan 13 2012 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com> 2.6.41.9-1 - Linux 3.1.9 - CVE-2012-0045 kvm: syscall instruction induced guest panic (rhbz 773392) * Wed Jan 11 2012 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com> - Patch from Stanislaw Gruszka to fix NULL ptr deref in mac80211 (rhbz 769766) * Tue Jan 10 2012 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com> - Fix ext3/ext4 corrupted bitmap error path (pointed out by Eric Sandeen) [root@playground ~]#