How to tell when a package was last updated?

Chris Green cl at isbd.net
Wed Jun 3 14:33:33 UTC 2020


On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 02:37:49PM +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> You can use zgrep to search for the package name through the files. It
> will search all of them if you use a wildcard in the file definition.
> 
Thanks, I hadn't thought to look for anything like zgrep, I just
unzipped all the compressed log files and used grep.  I found what I
wanted too, the current version of tin had been installed back in
November 2019.

So I must have reconfigured something by mistake. I did recently exit
tin by mistake with a combination of random key hits (assisted by the
cat I think), I guess that must have done it.  Fortunately I have
automatic incremental backups and was able to look back through
~/.tin/tinrc files to find the change.

-- 
Chris Green




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