Will Trillich wrote:
On Mon, Jun 21 at 12:09PM -0500, Rob Benton wrote:Yeah I noticed that, too. I think this may be difficult to tackle. The only thing I could think of would be to write a script in /etc/apt/apt.conf similar to localepurge that just writes to a logfile every time you install a package.
Recently I ran into a problem on my machine at home. I had
made an update of several packages and something went wrong.
What I need is a way to query all installed packages by their
install date. I couldn't find any existing tools like
dselect, synaptic, or aptitude that would let me do this. The
only thing I can think of is writing a perl script using the
output of `dpkg -s` on every installed package. This would
take a long time for sure. I didn't see any packages or docs
on functions used inside dpkg. Is there another way to do
this b/c I don't want to re-invent the wheel.
hmm.
$ dpkg -s apache-perl Package: apache-perl Status: install ok installed Priority: extra Section: web Installed-Size: 584 Maintainer: Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 1.3.26-1-1.26-0woody2 Provides: httpd Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libdb2 (>= 2:2.7.7.0-7), libperl5.6 (>= 5.6.1-7), mime-support, apache-common (>= 1.3.26), apache-common (<< 1.3.27), libapache-mod-perl (>= 1.26), libapache-mod-perl (<< 1.27), debconf, dpkg (>> 1.9.0) Recommends: apache Conffiles: /etc/init.d/apache-perl b3b9823d1e0348bfa7a91d0a5c18af65 /etc/cron.daily/apache-perl 2486e8768557a71272a07a4df1461775 /etc/apache-perl/cron.conf 2a02b56717b0f3a3d3566344d8c37b48 Description: Versatile, high-performance HTTP server with <yada yada>
i see installed-size, status: installed... but no installed-time...
if there were one, hobbling a perl script to parse it would be reasonably trivial (except for parsing date strings, and there's libraries to help with that).
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