At Sat, 1 Jun 2002 11:48:57 +1000, John Ferlito wrote: > Is there anyway to work out when a debian package was upgraded and what > the previous version was? > > Only thing I can think of is the date on the .deb in > /var/cache/apt/archives
you can look at the debian.changelog for the "theoretical" dates and versions.. i guess the most robust way of doing it would be to hook some script into DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs in a similar way to apt-listchanges. or you could archive /var/lib/dpkg/status daily, and then pull stuff out of it using grep-dctrl (or similar). many tools keep a status-old or something, so you could check there if you only want to check before/after the last install. -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
