What did I just update?

Gergely Nagy algernon at bonehunter.rulez.org
Wed Sep 29 21:08:19 UTC 2004


> What I am still searching for is some kind of long-time installation 
> log, keeping information about which packages have been 
> installed/removed/purged/updated and when. Does anyone know if this 
> exists anywhere in the apt system? Or does know a trick to gather this 
> information?

When using aptitude, /var/log/aptitude has some of this. Though it seems
to be non-trivial to parse it mechanically and write a frontend that can
display the appropriate changelogs... But it should be doable, methinks.

-- 
Gergely Nagy





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