Dale Scheetz writes ("Re: Bug#3422: termcap entry too long error"):
> On 28 Jun 1996, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote:
...
> > This would be *really* good. It'd be nice if there was also a verbose
> > option that listed exactly what files where installed where. Not
> > necessary but rather handy...
>
> I believe this information is already available in
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list.
He was talking, I think, about a log that would record not just which
package dpkg had most recently installed a file from, but give a
complete history.
Darren, do you have any idea how large such a log would get how
quickly ? Even if the information in it were very minimal and brief
you could expect it to grow by at least a megabyte every time you did
an upgrade ...
The contents of the /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list files come to 622K on my
system. Imagine recording that much new data, plus timestamps and
info saying whether the file was installed or removed &c and the
package name, added to the log every time your system goes through a
new release generation. You'd be adding 50-100K or so every time you
upgraded ncurses, for a start ...
Ian.
