On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:32, Mike Hommey <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
Sorry to chime in so late; I've reported some bugs against libdpkg-log-perl, let's see how it goes. If I missed some, please integrated :) Regards, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi _______________________________________________ Reportbug-maint mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/reportbug-maint
