On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 06:09:06PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Is there some sort of logfile that urpmi maintains about its rpm actions?
>
> I would like to have a log file, maybe /var/log/urpmi/installed, which
> should list the package names which were installed and the date/time when
> this package was installed. Further, there should be
> /var/log/urpmi/removed, which should list all the true removals. That is,
> it should list whenever urpme was run, and not the "kinda" removals that are
> done when updating a package. Further, there might be
> /var/log/urpmi/combined, which should contain the contents of both files
> plus a "flag" indicating whether this was an install or removal. Well, I
> could live with only this file being implemented as long as something like
> "grep 'removal' /var/log/urpmi/combined" would lsit all the removals. And
> lastly there should be a /var/log/urpmi/updates, listing which packages were
> updated and which one was present beforehand.
>
> Format of those files:
>
> installed:
>
> date package_name_version_release
>
> removed:
>
> date package_name_version_release
>
> combined:
>
> date type package_name_version_release
>
> updates:
>
> date old_package_name_version_release new_pkg_name_version_release
>
> This would allow to easily keep track of what package actions where done
> when.
>
> Maybe this should be implemented in rpm, so that really everything might be
> logged.
>
rpm installations are now in syslog. Nevertheless, the information is still
very hard to find.
Regards,
DindinX
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