> >But he's also asking for the install date. Me, as soon as I > >complete a set of installs/removes, I do a: > >COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l > /root/dpkg/dpkg.installed.`date +%y%m%d.%H%M` > > > >Then, I can diff to see what was installed when. Crude yet effective. > > > Here's a little script I run after each install, upgrade, or removal. [...] > COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l | grep "^i" | cut -b 5- > pkgs_woody.current Hmm... 'dpkg -l' will truncate the name if it is too big for the field. Is there a way to get the entire name? Something similar to --get-selections but including the version like --list? Bob
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