On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 01:03:53AM -0500, David Reiser wrote: > Something that I have wished for several times is more date information: > > When I most recently installed a package
In one respect that's a pretty hard one...the data isn't stored anywhere. I've heard debian talk about adding some sort of auditing trail to dpkg, dunno if they've implemented it yet (and obviously *our* current dpkg doesn't have it). I've got a hacked dpkg that can do it as well (as a side effect of another long-wanted fink feature) but right now it's only catch *some* installs not all. OTOH, it would be easy to write a Notify module that tracked it. The "Syslog" Notify module would work well for this now, but the data is stored in syslog (duh:) so it's only available within the limits of your logfile rotation history. > When I built it (this can be dug up from the deb build date, but it's > more work than it should be) A quickie is: ls -l `fink dumpinfo -fdebfile SOME_PACKAGE_NAME | cut -d: -f2 ` If we wanted to be reliable about this, we should check the datestamp of stuff *in* the .deb, not the .deb itself (care about build date, not when the already-built archive was copied/downloaded/whatevered). Maybe dumpinfo should have a "debstats" field that gives internal datestamp and installation size of the .deb? > When the last update was on the servers (again, available but harder > than it should be to find) Not sure a good way to do this one without rolling a server facility specifically for this request. Can't rely on CVS or rsync since no clue which way someone's doing it. gmane is a pain in the butt to search and parse efficiently automatically. Maybe screen-scrape the viewcvs webpage? > I have wanted this information mostly when I'm muttering evil things > wondering "what have I done _this_ time?" My fink efforts are > sporadic, and when I get myself into trouble, being able to tell > "Yeah, that one was installed yesterday" (instead of last week or > last month) can help jog my memory about what I may have been > thinking or attempting. Yeah:) dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
