Re: Does `dpkg' track the installation date of a package?

1997-12-19 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 18 Dec 1997, Raul Miller wrote: Todd Graham Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Count mine as one vote for a new LOG_DEBIAN facility. Is syslogd guaranteed to not lose events under debian? No, you could go into single user mode, where syslogd is simply turned off, and use dpkg to do

Re: Does `dpkg' track the installation date of a package?

1997-12-19 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Karl I wonder if `dpkg' tracks the installation date of a package, Karl whether it should if it doesn't, or why it doesn't if that is the Karl case. Yes, at least sort of, provided you use dselect with the dpkg-mountable package. Then at least all uses of dpkg that stem from dselect are

Does `dpkg' track the installation date of a package?

1997-12-18 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
I wonder if `dpkg' tracks the installation date of a package, whether it should if it doesn't, or why it doesn't if that is the case. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Does `dpkg' track the installation date of a package?

1997-12-18 Thread Herbert Xu
Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: I wonder if `dpkg' tracks the installation date of a package, whether it should if it doesn't, or why it doesn't if that is the case. You could try the modification date of /var/lib/dpkg/info/package.list. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ )

Re: Does `dpkg' track the installation date of a package?

1997-12-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: I wonder if `dpkg' tracks the installation date of a package, whether it should if it doesn't, or why it doesn't if that is the case. There was some discussion on the deity list about providing complete audit trails of package management, and it was

Re: Does `dpkg' track the installation date of a package?

1997-12-18 Thread Todd Graham Lewis
On 18 Dec 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote: maybe it is time to bringup the discussion on this list? The lack of an audit trail is really regrettable in dpkg. After all, it is as much a system tool as any other program I can think of; why it is bashful about using the system's log facility

Re: Does `dpkg' track the installation date of a package?

1997-12-18 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Todd == Todd Graham Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Todd Count mine as one vote for a new LOG_DEBIAN facility. And while we're at it, let's make one for HTTP also. Anything else? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

Re: Does `dpkg' track the installation date of a package?

1997-12-18 Thread Raul Miller
Todd Graham Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Count mine as one vote for a new LOG_DEBIAN facility. Is syslogd guaranteed to not lose events under debian? [It has no such guarantee for the general case.] -- Raul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL