On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 01:11:16AM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 08:03, Mike Hommey <[email protected]> wrote: > > I, for one, don't care very much about the dependency, but more about > > the fact that not having it installed could mean not being able to pull > > the information, even by installing afterwards. A dpkg.log parser would > > always work, except when the logs are rotated and old enough to have > > been removed. > > I tend to agree with Mike here: a log parser would be very nice, like > something > > dpkg-log last_ops <package> > > <N> <op_N, like purge install remove etc> <package> <version> > <N-1> <op_N-1> <package> <version> (<prev_version> if needed) > <N-2> <op_N-2> <package> <version> > <N-3> <op_N-3> <package> <version> > <N-4> <op_N-4> <package> <version> > > or a series of other interesting commands. > > Default logrotate configuration keeps a year of log, so we have quite > a bit of room even for the very lazy bug reporters :) > > What I'd like to avoid (with the reportbug maint hat on) is to let > reportbug parse a log file (either dpkg or xapian) to extract the info > it needs.
Looks like things are happening http://justimho.blogspot.com/2011/02/let-me-introduce-dpkglog-and-dpkg.html Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
