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 logged. dpkg-mountable is pretty cool, it also liberates you from the 'dselect uses stat() on every file' problem by constructing a list of what needs to be installed. Real-life example of the logfile: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> head -20 /var/log/dpkg-mountable =========================================================================== dpkg-mountable, run on Sun Dec 14 09:48:58 1997 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Run details: Installing package fmirror version 0.8.2-1 from /mirror/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/net/fmirror_0.8.2-1.deb MD5 checksum 56f4589d4bca4965a54ebf5b0f542e92 matches. Upgrading kernel-package from 3.47 to 3.48 from /mirror/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/misc/kernel-package_3.48.deb MD5 checksum 8f03421f1c67691597b0db84f07f8bab matches. Upgrading mount from 2.7f-1 to 2.7g-1 from /mirror/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/base/mount_2.7g-1.deb MD5 checksum e48c24aebc574d737ca2e970738f2d7e matches. [...] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] According to the latest official figures, http://rosebud.ml.org/~edd 43% of all statistics are totally worthless. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
