Re: What did I upgrade today?

[Scott Henson <shenson2@sandm.hn.org>]

On Sun, 2002-08-11 at 13:08, Tim Dijkstra wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A program (sylpheed-claws) stopped working today. I've upgraded some 
> packages, but I know sylpheed-claws
> wasn't one of them. How do I find out which packegs were upgraded, so 
> I can investigate which one broke
> sylpheed-claws? Is there some dpkg or apt-cache command (I didn't find it)

No there is no native command to do this.  I have a script that runs as
a cron job every night to record what was changed each day(I run
unstable).  I have this apt-history script set up in /usr/sbin so I can
run it whenever I want.  It is attached.

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  Scott Henson	shenson2@wvu.edu

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rapper Ice Cube said. "But these haters need to realize that  if you
mess with the man upstairs, you will get your ass smote. True dat."



#!/bin/sh

# 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=/root/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
        COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l | grep "^i" | cut -b 5- > pkgs_woody.current
        diff -C 0 pkgs_woody.last pkgs_woody.current >> woody_history.txt
fi
gzip woody_history.txt
rm -f pkgs_woody.last

# EOF