I'm still not quite sure what y'all are looking for. If you want a tool that generates reports like "on this date you installed this pkg, which touched these files, and then on this date you deinstalled this pkg, which touched these files, and then on this date you reinstalled this pkg but aborted the operation part way through, so these files are now zorched, then on this date you down-revved this pkg so these files got reverted, etc, etc" then I suspect you're out of luck. If any distribution offers capabilities like that I'll be impressed.
Meanwhile, allow me to suggest "man dpkg-query" ... _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss