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Do we need this crap on LWN?
Do we need this crap on LWN?
Posted Feb 22, 2007 5:46 UTC (Thu) by k8to (subscriber, #15413)In reply to: Do we need this crap on LWN? by vondo
Parent article: ESR's goodbye note
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.
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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.