Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: wishlist

No log is recorded of the actions (installing, removing, etc...) carried out by 
apt-get. This is annoying when one wants to undo an install request, because 
you don't necessarily exactly remember which extra packages were installed 
along the main requested one.

I'm using the following (quite primitive) wrapper script in /root/bin as a 
workaround, but it would be nice if that capacity could be directly included in 
apt.

My script:
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#!/bin/sh

export LOG_FILE=/var/log/apt-get.log

echo Logging Wrapper for apt-get [ftaiani 2002-02-19]
echo Output is logged to $LOG_FILE

(echo ; date ; echo $0 $* ; echo ) >> /var/log/apt-get.log

/usr/bin/apt-get $* | tee -a /var/log/apt-get.log
   

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: powerpc
Kernel: Linux tsfft 2.2.19 #1 Sat Apr 14 23:20:24 CDT 2001 ppc
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.ISO-8859-1

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.2.5-1    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2        1:2.95.4-2 The GNU stdc++ library


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