Re: Hoe to keep an history of package releases installation ?

[bmarcum@iglou.com (Bill Marcum)]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 04:33:32PM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote:
> The only way I know to understand when did I install the last release of 
> a package is to look into the /var/lib/dpkg/info directory
> 
> ls -latr /var/lib/dpkg/info/*list
> 
> This does not show the package release nor does it permit keeping an 
> "history" of package levels/installation dates.
> 
> I feel this info would be very useful in the resolution of certain problems.
> 
> Is there some way to achieve this or is this impossible and would need a 
> new feature in the .deb packages ?
> 
> Grazie.
> Bob
> 
/var/log/aptitude if you use aptitude