Re: Does `dpkg' track the installation date of a package?
On Thu, 18 Dec 1997, Raul Miller wrote:
> Todd Graham Lewis <tlewis@mindspring.net> wrote:
> > Count mine as one vote for a new LOG_DEBIAN facility.
>
> Is syslogd guaranteed to not lose events under debian?
No, you could go into single user mode, where syslogd is simply turned
off, and use dpkg to do anything it normally does. Syslogd would obviously
miss the whole event.
I think the log file(s) would have to be updated by dpkg itself.
> [It has no such guarantee for the general case.]
Indeed.
Remco
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