Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing
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. but in my opinion this should be so easy as
> > possible to everyone. Not everybody is familiar with grep
> > etc. but apt-history show should be no problem.
> >
> > Regards Nico
>
> function apt-history () {
> grep " $1 " /var/log/dpkg.log
> }
Actually, apt-history would be prefered.
dpkg logs everything that is actually installed. However, apt installs
dependencies based on install requests. Those dependencies aren't actually
important when recreating an install list.
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