Package: dpkg Version: 1.17.21 Severity: minor As far as I can tell the official documentation for the format of dpkg.log is in the dpkg(1) man page, when it describes the --log option. Fully quoting the relevant part:
> Log messages are of the form `YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS status state pkg > installed-version' for status change updates; `YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS action pkg > installed-version available-version' for actions where action is one of > install, upgrade, remove, purge; and `YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS conffile filename > decision' for conffile changes where decision is either install or keep. That leaves out the "startup" log entries, e.g.: $ grep startup /var/log/dpkg.log | head -n 2 2014-11-04 11:00:46 startup packages configure 2014-11-04 11:01:18 startup archives unpack The only variants I've found on my system are: $ zgrep startup /var/log/dpkg.log| cut -f 3- -d' '|sort -u startup archives install startup archives unpack startup packages configure startup packages purge startup packages remove It would be nice to document the actual format (and meaning) of those entries in dpkg(1). With many thanks for maintaining dpkg! Cheers. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=it_IT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-7+b2 ii libc6 2.19-13 ii liblzma5 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3 ii libselinux1 2.3-2 ii tar 1.27.1-2+b1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 dpkg recommends no packages. Versions of packages dpkg suggests: ii apt 1.0.9.4 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
