On Tuesday 22 June 2004 13:44, Rob Benton wrote: > Will Trillich wrote: > >On Mon, Jun 21 at 12:09PM -0500, Rob Benton wrote: > >>Recently I ran into a problem on my machine at home. I had > >>made an update of several packages and something went wrong. > >>What I need is a way to query all installed packages by their > >>install date. I couldn't find any existing tools like > >>dselect, synaptic, or aptitude that would let me do this. The > >>only thing I can think of is writing a perl script using the > >>output of `dpkg -s` on every installed package. This would > >>take a long time for sure. I didn't see any packages or docs > >>on functions used inside dpkg. Is there another way to do > >>this b/c I don't want to re-invent the wheel. > > > >hmm. > > > > $ dpkg -s apache-perl > > Package: apache-perl > > Status: install ok installed > > Priority: extra > > Section: web > > Installed-Size: 584 > > Maintainer: Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Version: 1.3.26-1-1.26-0woody2 > > Provides: httpd > > Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libdb2 (>= 2:2.7.7.0-7), libperl5.6 (>= > > 5.6.1-7), mime-support, apache-common (>= 1.3.26), apache-common (<< > > 1.3.27), libapache-mod-perl (>= 1.26), libapache-mod-perl (<< 1.27), > > debconf, dpkg (>> 1.9.0) Recommends: apache > > Conffiles: > > /etc/init.d/apache-perl b3b9823d1e0348bfa7a91d0a5c18af65 > > /etc/cron.daily/apache-perl 2486e8768557a71272a07a4df1461775 > > /etc/apache-perl/cron.conf 2a02b56717b0f3a3d3566344d8c37b48 > > Description: Versatile, high-performance HTTP server with > > <yada yada> > > > >i see installed-size, status: installed... but no > >installed-time... > > > >if there were one, hobbling a perl script to parse it would be > >reasonably trivial (except for parsing date strings, and there's > >libraries to help with that). > > Yeah I noticed that, too. I think this may be difficult to tackle. The > only thing I could think of would be to write a script in > /etc/apt/apt.conf similar to localepurge that just writes to a logfile > every time you install a package.
how about "ls -lart /var/lib/dpkg/info" ? -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ - against microsoft attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
