On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 12:13:00 +0000 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 09:50:26PM +1000, Peter A. Cole wrote: >> I need to find out when my perl version was upgraded, and I can use >> dpkg to verify the fact that it's installed, but I can't seem to find >> a way to display *when* it was installed. >> >> Any hints? Or am I missing something obvious in a manpage or >> something? > > I'm sorry, but there's no facility in dpkg to log installations at the > moment: it's a long-standing enhancement request. You either have to do > it yourself, or use aptitude which I believe has installation logging > support. > > If the upgrade was recent, you may be able to dig out a date by > comparing /var/lib/dpkg/status, /var/lib/dpkg/status-old, and > /var/backups/dpkg.status.*.
Another possibility would be looking at the dates on the files for
the package in /var/lib/dpkg/info.
-c
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