Bug#284499: dpkg should log all actions

[Juergen Rinas <jrinas@gmx.de>]

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.25
Severity: wishlist

dpkg should create a (never rotating) logfile that contains all
action in the following way:

2006.12.06 21:11:10 aptitude 0.2.15.8-1 successfully installed
2006.12.06 21:11:20 edict 2004.08.04-1 pruned
2006.12.06 21:12:14 tetex-bin updated form 2.0.2-23 to 2.0.2-24

This file should contain the whole history of the system over years.
This file should be human readable and parsable.

My reasons for such a file are:

1.) The system administrator should have a chance to reproduce, what he did to
his system.


2.) The logfile should be parsable in order to present the Information to users.
So that selected informations can be wrapped into a web page that can
link to further information...
... e.g. the local /usr/share/doc/<packagename> directories.
So that every user of a can follow what has been installed or updated.
(And optionally look at the changelogs.)

To give people insight into what happened can be a big factor if you have to
convince people that are normally used to insall everything themselves on their
M$ OS.





-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii  dselect                     1.10.25      a user tool to manage Debian packa
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

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