Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> writes:

> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 07:06:47PM +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> Just so simple.  Now, I want to know when libiec61883-dev:i386 was installed
>> into my system.  To do so, I did:
>> 
>>  $ zgrep libiec61883-dev:i386 dpkg.log*
>> dpkg.log:2020-07-23 08:07:12 status unpacked libiec61883-dev:i386 1.2.0-3
>> dpkg.log:2020-07-23 08:07:12 configure libiec61883-dev:i386 1.2.0-3 <none>
>> dpkg.log:2020-07-23 08:07:12 status unpacked libiec61883-dev:i386 1.2.0-3
>> dpkg.log:2020-07-23 08:07:13 status half-configured libiec61883-dev:i386 1.2.0-3
>> dpkg.log:2020-07-23 08:07:13 status installed libiec61883-dev:i386 1.2.0-3
>> 
>> In the output there isn't any `install' item...  How come...?
>
> Most likely, because your oldest logs have been removed already.


Must be so because

 $ zgrep "2018.*.install " /var/log/dpkg* 

gives no output and so with 2017, 2016 and 2015, whereas for 2019 and 2020
there is output...

rodolfo