How to find WHEN a package was installed

2004-03-01 Thread Peter A. Cole
Hi all, I need to find out when my perl version was upgraded, and I can use dpkg to verify the fact that it's installed, but I can't seem to find a way to display *when* it was installed. Any hints? Or am I missing something obvious in a manpage or something? Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: How to find WHEN a package was installed

2004-03-01 Thread Peter A. Cole
On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 21:50:26 +1000 Peter A. Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I need to find out when my perl version was upgraded, and I can use dpkg to verify the fact that it's installed, but I can't seem to find a way to display *when* it was installed. Any hints? Or am I

Re: How to find WHEN a package was installed

2004-03-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 09:50:26PM +1000, Peter A. Cole wrote: I need to find out when my perl version was upgraded, and I can use dpkg to verify the fact that it's installed, but I can't seem to find a way to display *when* it was installed. Any hints? Or am I missing something obvious in a

Re: How to find WHEN a package was installed

2004-03-01 Thread Peter A. Cole
On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 12:13:00 + Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry, but there's no facility in dpkg to log installations at the moment: it's a long-standing enhancement request. You either have to do it yourself, or use aptitude which I believe has installation logging

Re: How to find WHEN a package was installed

2004-03-01 Thread Peter A. Cole
On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 22:21:03 +1000 Peter A. Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 12:13:00 + Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry, but there's no facility in dpkg to log installations at the moment: it's a long-standing enhancement request. You either have to

Re: How to find WHEN a package was installed

2004-03-01 Thread Jaume
Peter A. Cole peteracole at bigpond.com writes: Hi all, I need to find out when my perl version was upgraded, and I can use dpkg to verify the fact that it's installed, but I can't seem to find a way to display *when* it was installed. Any hints? Or am I missing something obvious in a

Re: How to find WHEN a package was installed

2004-03-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 09:00:43AM -0500, Chris Metzler wrote: Another possibility would be looking at the dates on the files for the package in /var/lib/dpkg/info. Oh yes, the *.list files would do that. (A bit of experimentation suggests that the others bear the build date rather than the

Re: How to find WHEN a package was installed

2004-03-01 Thread Chris Metzler
On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 12:13:00 + Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 09:50:26PM +1000, Peter A. Cole wrote: I need to find out when my perl version was upgraded, and I can use dpkg to verify the fact that it's installed, but I can't seem to find a way to display

Re: How to find WHEN a package was installed

2004-03-01 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 12:13:00PM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 09:50:26PM +1000, Peter A. Cole wrote: I need to find out when my perl version was upgraded, and I can use dpkg to verify the fact that it's installed, but I can't seem to find a way to display *when* it

Re: How to find WHEN a package was installed

2004-03-01 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Rob! On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:33:57AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 12:13:00PM +, Colin Watson wrote: I'm sorry, but there's no facility in dpkg to log installations at the moment: it's a long-standing enhancement request. You either have to do it yourself,

Re: How to find WHEN a package was installed

2004-03-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:33:57AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 12:13:00PM +, Colin Watson wrote: I'm sorry, but there's no facility in dpkg to log installations at the moment: it's a long-standing enhancement request. You either have to do it yourself, or use

Re: How to find WHEN a package was installed

2004-03-01 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 07:00:07PM +0100, Florian Ernst wrote: Hello Rob! On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:33:57AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 12:13:00PM +, Colin Watson wrote: I'm sorry, but there's no facility in dpkg to log installations at the moment: it's a

Re: How to find WHEN a package was installed

2004-03-01 Thread Peter A. Cole
On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 14:18:46 + Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 09:00:43AM -0500, Chris Metzler wrote: Another possibility would be looking at the dates on the files for the package in /var/lib/dpkg/info. Oh yes, the *.list files would do that. (A bit of