Re: recording package transactions

[Lukas Ruf <ruf@rawip.org>]

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> Kevin Mark <kmark+debian-user@pipeline.com> [2004-09-28 08:13]:
>
>  for a while people have wanted a way to keep track of apt's actions.

I do:

- -- BEGIN
  #!/bin/sh

  DATE="`date +%Y%m%d-%H%M`"
  LOG="debian.packages"
  VAR="-V"

  if [ "`hostname`" = "uccellina" ]; then
    VAR=""
  fi

  cd
  if [ ! -d Log ]; then
    mkdir Log
    chmod 0755 Log
  fi

  cd Log

  if [ -f "${LOG}.log.bz2" ]; then
    bunzip2 -f ${LOG}.log.bz2
  fi

  if [ -f "${LOG}.pre.log.bz2" ]; then
    mv ${LOG}.pre.log.bz2 arch.${LOG}.pre-${DATE}.log.bz2
  fi

  if [ -f "${LOG}.post.log.bz2" ]; then
    mv ${LOG}.post.log.bz2 arch.${LOG}.post-${DATE}.log.bz2
  fi
  dpkg -l | grep "^i" | cut -b 5- > ${LOG}.pre.log

  sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade ${VAR}

  echo "Creating Delta Log"

  dpkg -l | grep "^i" | cut -b 5- > ${LOG}.post.log

  touch ${LOG}.post.log
  touch ${LOG}.log

  diff -C 0 ${LOG}.pre.log ${LOG}.post.log >> ${LOG}.log

  bzip2 -9 ${LOG}.log
  bzip2 -9 ${LOG}.post.log
  bzip2 -9 ${LOG}.pre.log

  echo "Running diffmon"

  sudo diffmon
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Of course, files could be deleted but I do not.

wbr,
Lukas
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