Do we need this crap on LWN?

Posted Feb 22, 2007 5:46 UTC (Thu) by k8to (guest, #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.

dpkg log

Posted Feb 22, 2007 14:41 UTC (Thu) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link] (1 responses)

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 (guest, #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.