On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 09:43:45PM -0400, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 04:57:14PM -0500, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I was wondering if there is any kind of logging system that records > > exactly which packages *were* installed. For example, I'm not 100% > > sure of which OpenOffice we had installed on a particular machine > > before upgrading to 1.0.3 and I'd like to find out, if possible. Is > > there a log somewhere (or a way to generate a log) to produce > > something like: > > > > 2002-12-20: Installed openoffice.org-files_1.0.2 > > 2003-03-12: Upgraded apache_1.0.24 to apache_1.0.25 > > > > etc. > > aptitude has a log file. apt-get and dpkg don't. Just as an aside to this: aptitude is almost command line compatible with apt-get; that is, you can do things like 'aptitude install blahblah' and such, just as you do with apt-get. Of course, you get the aptitude advantages from this, too: operations are logged, packages that are only needed as dependencies are marked as such, etc. You could alias apt-get='aptitude' if you felt the urge (aside from the different purge handling, I see). -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> | mlspam@ertius.org | http://www.ertius.org/ GPG keys: 1024D/1E73B7CD, 4096R/3ABDE5EC | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: BCCI argus BCCI enforcers AIEWS dictionary FSF gamma benelux
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