Re: packages installed today/yesterday
Tim Dijkstra <newsuser@famdijkstra.org> writes:
> On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 22:57:06 +0200
> martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net> wrote:
>
>> is it possible to get a list of packages that were installed today, or
>> yesterday?
>>
>> i remember this vaguely, but it's not happening...
>>
> I asked the same thing a few weeks ago. The answer then was: no. Some
> solutions came up:
> Running a nightly cronjob saving the output of dpkg -l | grep ^ii and
> diffing it with the one of the night before.
> Or just poking around /var/lib/dpkg/status and /var/lib/dpkg/status-old
diff /var/lib/dpkg/status-old /var/lib/dpkg/status
The status prior to the last seven updates is available at
/var/backups/dpkg.status.? (Assuming you're running cron with the
default /etc/cron.daily/standard script.)
Regards,
Bob
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