On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 11:01 +1000, Michael Wardle wrote: > On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 22:41 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 12:49 +1000, Michael Wardle wrote: > > > > > Would it not be more efficient if this information were stored > > > in /var/lib/dpkg/status? > > > > > > I would find this feature very useful. > > > > > Out of interest, what would you find it useful _for_ ? > > > > I can't think of a use-case for this field that isn't covered > > by /var/log/dpkg.log > > Neither the apt nor the dpkg manual page mentions this log file, so I > didn't know to look for it. > > The first thing that worries me about this file is that it only contains > very recent actions, and it's not controlled by /etc/logrotate.conf, so > it looks like dpkg itself is pruning old entries. > /etc/logrotate.d/dpkg
Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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