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Do we need this crap on LWN?Do we need this crap on LWN?Posted Feb 21, 2007 19:48 UTC (Wed) by vondo (guest, #256)In reply to: Do we need this crap on LWN? by evgeny Parent article: ESR's goodbye note
Since we've got deb experts reading this... The thing I miss from rpm days that I don't know how to do in deb/apt is:
rpm -qa --last
Give me a list of all the packages installed and order them by the last time they were updated.
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dpkg magic Posted Feb 21, 2007 20:55 UTC (Wed) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link] I don't think a capability like that is built in, but try this:ls -ltr /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list | sed -e 's,^.*/\([^/]*\)\.list,\1,'
dpkg magic Posted Feb 21, 2007 22:06 UTC (Wed) by jonabbey (subscriber, #2736) [Link] Ah, but what would Eric say about such an unfriendly, regressive, inward-focused approach to software design?
Okay, yeah, sorry, I've got nothing.
Do we need this crap on LWN? Posted Feb 22, 2007 5:46 UTC (Thu) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link] Until _quite_ recently this was completely impossible. Really. No records were kept at all.
Now that dpkg keeps a log, someone could at least write such a thing, although I don't think one exists yet.
dpkg log Posted Feb 22, 2007 14:41 UTC (Thu) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link] the ls/sed hack I posted above works on Debian sarge, which (although current stable)isn't exactly "quite recent". No need for the dpkg log. And as far as I can see, recent dpkg only keeps a log if you explicitly tell it to anyway. (Though I could be missing something more recent.)
dpkg log Posted Feb 22, 2007 18:21 UTC (Thu) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link] Buh, I didn't look at the criteria closely. I've often needed a log and found the 'most recent update' information was too lossy.
Do we need this crap on LWN? Posted Feb 22, 2007 16:49 UTC (Thu) by akumria (subscriber, #7773) [Link] Something like:
eve:[~]% sudo tail /var/log/dpkg.log
perhaps?
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