Guillaume TESSIER wrote:
Marty wrote:Guillaume TESSIER wrote:what is this : dpkg/apt var package directories should tell the story. What is the absolut path of it?There are many individual files that get updated, in directories or in subdirectories of, /var/lib/dpkg and /var/lib/apt, /var/cache/apt, /var/backups and perhaps others as well. For example in /var/lib/apt/lists/ there are *Packages files which should have the time and date stamp of the last time you updated your package list, i.e. when you ran apt-get update or the package update option of dselect. To find all the files which get updated I would use something like the following: find /var |egrep 'dpkg|apt' |xargs ls -altd |more If I really wanted to get fancy, and I already know e.g. that I did the update/upgrade/install three days ago, I might try something like: find -mtime 3 /var |egrep 'dpkg|apt' |xargs ls -altd |more
that should be: find /var -mtime 3 |egrep 'dpkg|apt' |xargs ls -altd |more
While testing out that command, I just starting with -mtime 1 and when I got to 7 I found most of the files that changed, which means my last major package upgrade was 7 days ago. Other files had later timestamps, indicating that I did something like install some packages at a later time.Marty! thank you! I did my last upgrade the 2nd of june!!!
That's the way. The best solution is to redefine it as a non-problem. :-)
Right, that's great... so it shouldn't be the complete mess in the box. Bye the way, have you red my last posts (still about this)?It still seems strange as while still using the target "testing" in my sources list i don't update the packages list with the testing packages....
Don't know what's that'a all about.
Don't know. anyway i guess i should use the "stable" target from now.
Or "sarge" if you want to stay with this release in the future.
G