Re: Todays apt-get upgrade broke my subversion

[Wayne Topa <brittman@capital.net>]

Lukas Ruf(ruf@rawip.org) is reported to have said:
> Hi Flo,
> 
> > Florian Ernst <florian@uni-hd.de> [2004-08-04 18:28]:
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 06:10:55PM +0200, Lukas Ruf wrote:
> > > Is there any log-file that shows me the exact changes of todays
> > > upgrade?
> >
> > |$ ls -al /usr/share/doc/subversion/changelog.*
> > |-rw-r--r--  1 root root 11716 2004-06-11 00:31 /usr/share/doc/subversion/changelog.Debian.gz
> > |-rw-r--r--  1 root root 24207 2004-06-11 00:58 /usr/share/doc/subversion/changelog.gz
> >
> > It take it this is what you are searching for. As you don't say what
> > version you upgraded _from_ there isn't much else to show...
> 
> thanks for the feedback.
> 
> As I wrote: I run update/upgrade daily.  Therefore, subversion was not
> affected today.  It must rather deal with Berkeley DB or similar.
> 
> Any further ideas?

I picked up this script some time ago and have it run after each
update/dist-upgrade I do.  I didn't write it but I sure use and like
it alot.  Mosify it to fit your needs.


:-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-)

#--------------------
#!/bin/sh

# Written by Larry Holish, ljholish@speakeasy.net


# Script that writes current list of packages installed
# from /var/lib/dpkg/available to pkgs_woody.current.
# Keeps a history of changes between package versions
# in woody_history.txt.

LISTDIR=/home/wtopa/Debian
cd $LISTDIR

if [ -f 'woody_history.txt.gz' ]; then
        gunzip woody_history.txt.gz
fi

if [ -f 'pkgs_woody.current' ]; then
        mv pkgs_woody.current pkgs_woody.last
fi

COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l | grep "^i" | cut -b 5- > pkgs_woody.current

diff -C 0 pkgs_woody.last pkgs_woody.current >> woody_history.txt

gzip woody_history.txt
rm -f pkgs_woody.last

echo "Updating Package list at ~wtopa/Debian/woody_history.txt.gz"
#-----------------

wt

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