Re: How to find WHEN a package was installed
On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 14:18:46 +0000
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 09:00:43AM -0500, Chris Metzler wrote:
> > Another possibility would be looking at the dates on the files for
> > the package in /var/lib/dpkg/info.
>
> Oh yes, the *.list files would do that. (A bit of experimentation
> suggests that the others bear the build date rather than the
> installation date.)
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
>
>
> --
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org
> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
>
Thanks to all of you for your help in this, it's at least taken Perl out of the equation. The latest attributes on any Perl file/module/library I can find is Feb 27, which is a couple of days prior to my problem, so it's not Perl...
Thanks again,
Pete
Reply to: