On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Joey Hess wrote: > My first thoughts are that when a package is up-or-downgraded, removed, > purged, > configured, etc, a minimum of package name, previous version, new version > should be logged, in an easily-parsed format. It would be nice to have a field > that indicates what caused dpkg to do this.
--status-pipe(which was added in 1.9.0). You could probably modify it to log other things as well. ----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK---- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s: a-- c+++ UL++++ P+ L++++ !E W+ M o+ K- W--- !O M- !V PS-- PE++ Y+ PGP++ t* 5++ X+ tv b+ D++ G e h*! !r z? -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK----- ----BEGIN PGP INFO---- Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Finger Print | KeyID 67 01 42 93 CA 37 FB 1E 63 C9 80 1D 08 CF 84 0A | DE656B05 PGP AD46 C888 F587 F8A3 A6DA 3261 8A2C 7DC2 8BD4 A489 | 8BD4A489 GPG -----END PGP INFO-----

