Andrey, My goal is to build a list of all the installed packages in chronological order. With such a list I can see which package were installed beyond the initial set. The reason for this is to be able to tell a colleague what to install to get their Cygwin configured like mine so they can use tools I've created.
I was hoping a package install date/time would be provided by the package management system. Absent an official package install date/time I'll take whatever I can scrounge up! A stat of <package> in /etc/setup/<package>.lst.gz gives me a "Birth" date/time which is sufficient for my purposes. For example: $ pkginstalldate 2>/dev/null | sort . . . 2016-05-24 13:28:27.839145400 -0500 xproto 2016-05-24 13:28:27.937145400 -0500 zlib-devel 2016-05-24 13:28:27.958145400 -0500 znc 2016-05-24 13:28:28.302145400 -0500 znc-perl 2016-05-25 08:52:38.208000000 -0500 m4 2016-05-26 11:07:30.588000000 -0500 vim 2016-05-26 11:07:30.692000000 -0500 vim-common 2016-05-26 11:07:33.714000000 -0500 xxd 2016-06-06 14:31:01.692765800 -0500 girepository-GdkPixbuf2.0 2016-06-06 14:31:01.708365700 -0500 girepository-Gst1.0 2016-06-06 14:31:01.724965600 -0500 girepository-GstInterfaces1.0 2016-06-06 14:31:01.803965100 -0500 libcroco0.6_3 2016-06-06 14:31:01.803965100 -0500 libfontconfig-common 2016-06-06 14:31:01.879364700 -0500 libfontconfig-devel 2016-06-06 14:31:01.911564500 -0500 libfontconfig1 2016-06-06 14:31:01.927164400 -0500 libgailutil18 2016-06-06 14:31:01.942764300 -0500 libgdk_pixbuf2.0-devel 2016-06-06 14:31:01.943764300 -0500 libgdk_pixbuf2.0_0 2016-06-06 14:31:02.263162400 -0500 libglib2.0-devel 2016-06-06 14:31:02.756159400 -0500 libglib2.0_0 2016-06-06 14:31:03.294556500 -0500 libgstinterfaces1.0_0 2016-06-06 14:31:03.356956100 -0500 libgstreamer1.0_0 2016-06-06 14:31:03.524955100 -0500 libgtk2.0-devel 2016-06-06 14:31:03.941952600 -0500 libgtk2.0_0 2016-06-06 14:31:04.804547500 -0500 libhdf5hl_10 2016-06-06 14:31:04.809547500 -0500 liborc0.4_0 2016-06-06 14:31:04.850747300 -0500 libpq5 2016-06-06 14:31:04.866347200 -0500 perl-B-Generate 2016-06-06 14:31:04.881947100 -0500 perl-Capture-Tiny 2016-06-06 14:31:04.897547000 -0500 perl-Config-Perl-V 2016-06-06 14:31:04.898547000 -0500 perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker 2016-06-06 14:31:05.054346200 -0500 perl-HTTP-Tiny 2016-06-06 14:31:05.104145900 -0500 perl-List-AllUtils 2016-06-06 14:31:05.119745800 -0500 perl-List-MoreUtils 2016-06-06 14:31:05.152945600 -0500 perl-List-SomeUtils 2016-06-06 14:31:06.376138400 -0500 unzip The above helps me to remember I installed m4, vim and unzip beyond my initial setup. [I use /dev/null because of libpopt0 as mentioned in earlier discussion. I haven't quite gotten to the point where I feel comfortable ignoring the error generated for it.] --Joel On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Andrey Repin <anrdae...@yandex.ru> wrote: > Greetings, Joel Breazeale! > >> I am looking for a clean way to determine the install date/time for a >> Cygwin package. I have a hack that suffices, just want to see what >> alternatives exist. Thanks! > > How do you define this "install date" ? > The very first installation of any Cygwin package? > %CYGROOT%/var/log/setup.log may contain this information. > Or may not. > > > -- > With best regards, > Andrey Repin > Wednesday, June 8, 2016 22:43:45 > > Sorry for my terrible english... > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
