Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

2005-07-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm wondering if this wouldn't be better added as a feature to aptitude/synaptic, as people who would use apt-get or dpkg would probably know grep. The people he was targetting are more likely to use one of the package selection tools. Why not have it

Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

2005-07-10 Thread David Pashley
On Jul 10, 2005 at 07:01, Goswin von Brederlow praised the llamas by saying: David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm wondering if this wouldn't be better added as a feature to aptitude/synaptic, as people who would use apt-get or dpkg would probably know grep. The people he was

Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

2005-07-10 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-07-10 13:07]: On Jul 10, 2005 at 07:01, Goswin von Brederlow praised the llamas by saying: David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Why not have it in dpkg and have aptitude or synaptic use it in turn? Why limit it to higher level frontends

Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

2005-07-10 Thread David Pashley
On Jul 10, 2005 at 12:26, Goswin von Brederlow praised the llamas by saying: David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The backend does have it. It logs the information. Higher level tools just need to read the file in and display it. Why add grep functionality to dpkg when we already have

Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

2005-07-09 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Nico Golde [Sat, Jul 09 2005, 02:14:22AM]: sudo apt-history show upgrade 2005-07-09 00:12:03: upgrade gstreamer0.8-alsa=0.8.8-3 0.8.10-1 2005-07-09 00:12:03: upgrade libbonobo2-common=2.8.1-2 2.10.0-1 2005-07-09 00:12:03: upgrade

Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

2005-07-09 Thread David Pashley
On Jul 09, 2005 at 01:14, Nico Golde praised the llamas by saying: Ok, now I had a look on the log file. I think apt-history is different. If you want you can see the same info but the log is a typical logfile. You have to use grep and other coreutils to get for example the new version of a

Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

2005-07-09 Thread Nico Golde
Hallo David, * David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-07-09 12:02]: On Jul 09, 2005 at 01:14, Nico Golde praised the llamas by saying: sn beebo root% grep upgrade /var/log/dpkg.log | tail 2005-07-09 01:17:02 upgrade eog 2.10.0-0.2 2.10.2-0.1 2005-07-09 01:17:09 upgrade gaim 1:1.3.1-2

Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

2005-07-09 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-07-09 12:02]: #include hallo.h * Nico Golde [Sat, Jul 09 2005, 02:14:22AM]: sudo apt-history show upgrade 2005-07-09 00:12:03: upgrade gstreamer0.8-alsa=0.8.8-3 0.8.10-1 2005-07-09 00:12:03: upgrade libbonobo2-common=2.8.1-2

Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

2005-07-09 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Nico Golde [Sat, Jul 09 2005, 12:06:54PM]: But for example: apt-history show install 2005-07-09 00:12:03: install libstdc++6-4.0-dev 4.0.0-12 2005-07-09 00:12:03: install libaa1 1.4p5-28 2005-07-09 00:12:03:

Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

2005-07-09 Thread Nico Golde
Hallo Eduard, * Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-07-09 13:02]: #include hallo.h * Nico Golde [Sat, Jul 09 2005, 12:06:54PM]: [...] I think there is apt-history a better way. For doing what exactly? For doing this without corebutils. regards nico -- Nico Golde - JAB: [EMAIL

Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

2005-07-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo Eduard, * Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-07-09 13:02]: #include hallo.h * Nico Golde [Sat, Jul 09 2005, 12:06:54PM]: I think there is apt-history a better way. For doing what exactly? For doing this without corebutils. Coreutils is

Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

2005-07-09 Thread Nico Golde
Hallo Matthew, * Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-07-09 13:09]: Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo Eduard, * Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-07-09 13:02]: #include hallo.h * Nico Golde [Sat, Jul 09 2005, 12:06:54PM]: I think there is apt-history a better way. For

Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

2005-07-09 Thread David Pashley
On Jul 09, 2005 at 12:12, Nico Golde praised the llamas by saying: Hallo Matthew, Coreutils is required. Why is the ability to do something without it an advantage? You can do almost every thing with with tools like, grep, sed, awk etc. but in my opinion this should be so easy as

Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

2005-07-09 Thread Nico Golde
Hallo David, * David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-07-09 13:20]: On Jul 09, 2005 at 12:12, Nico Golde praised the llamas by saying: Coreutils is required. Why is the ability to do something without it an advantage? You can do almost every thing with with tools like, grep, sed, awk

Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

2005-07-09 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Nico Golde [Sat, Jul 09 2005, 01:04:23PM]: I think there is apt-history a better way. For doing what exactly? For doing this without corebutils. a) grep it is not in coreutils but in the grep package b) you seem to have an allergy to essential packages (you know,

Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

2005-07-09 Thread Nico Golde
Hallo Eduard, * Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-07-09 13:26]: #include hallo.h * Nico Golde [Sat, Jul 09 2005, 01:04:23PM]: I think there is apt-history a better way. For doing what exactly? For doing this without corebutils. a) grep it is not in coreutils but in the

Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

2005-07-09 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Nico Golde [Sat, Jul 09 2005, 01:12:24PM]: Coreutils is required. Why is the ability to do something without it an advantage? You can do almost every thing with with tools like, grep, sed, awk etc. but in my opinion this should be so easy as possible to everyone. Not

Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

2005-07-09 Thread Nico Golde
Hallo Eduard, * Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-07-09 13:44]: #include hallo.h * Nico Golde [Sat, Jul 09 2005, 01:12:24PM]: Coreutils is required. Why is the ability to do something without it an advantage? You can do almost every thing with with tools like, grep, sed, awk

Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

2005-07-09 Thread David Pashley
On Jul 09, 2005 at 12:22, Nico Golde praised the llamas by saying: Hallo David, * David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-07-09 13:20]: On Jul 09, 2005 at 12:12, Nico Golde praised the llamas by saying: Coreutils is required. Why is the ability to do something without it an advantage?

Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

2005-07-09 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, David Pashley wrote: On Jul 09, 2005 at 12:12, Nico Golde praised the llamas by saying: Hallo Matthew, Coreutils is required. Why is the ability to do something without it an advantage? You can do almost every thing with with tools like, grep, sed, awk etc.

Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

2005-07-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok it seems that I am the only one interrested in this package. I will close the bug. Thanks for your help! Regards Nico Please don't. Rather do what people suggested: 1.) adapt the script to use the dpkg.log The dpkg log is overly detailed and probably

Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

2005-07-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, David Pashley wrote: On Jul 09, 2005 at 12:12, Nico Golde praised the llamas by saying: Hallo Matthew, Coreutils is required. Why is the ability to do something without it an advantage? You can do almost every thing with

Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

2005-07-09 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 09:00:19PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: I guess you would have to divert apt-get and aptitude for that and log the invocations. Actualy with aptitude taking the list of non automatic packages should give you exactly the install list. aptitude has had such kind

Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

2005-07-09 Thread David Pashley
On Jul 09, 2005 at 19:36, Goswin von Brederlow praised the llamas by saying: Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok it seems that I am the only one interrested in this package. I will close the bug. Thanks for your help! Regards Nico Please don't. Rather do what people suggested:

Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

2005-07-08 Thread Nico Golde
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: apt-history Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Vittorio Palmisano [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://redclay.altervista.org/archivio/python/apt-history/ * License : GPL

Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

2005-07-08 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 02:03:32PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: * Package name: apt-history Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Vittorio Palmisano [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://redclay.altervista.org/archivio/python/apt-history/ * License : GPL

Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

2005-07-08 Thread Nico Golde
Hallo Guillem, * Guillem Jover [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-07-09 01:52]: On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 02:03:32PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: * Package name: apt-history Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Vittorio Palmisano [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL :