On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, David Stern wrote: > On Mon, 23 Feb 1998 04:28:22 +0100, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, David Stern wrote: > > > > > Is there a nice way to determine when I installed a package? > > > > > > Right now I'm manually comparing my /var/lib/dpkg/status* files. > > > > One way to see when you last installed or upgraded a package, is to look > > at the modification time of the /usr/doc/<package-name> directory, since > > at least one new file (the new changelog) is installed into this > > directory at every upgrade. > > > > Not a very nice way, but it works for the majority of the packages. > > I never even knew that directories time/date were modified when a file > was written, but I see you're absolutely correct, and this is a pretty > cool idea.
I don't think the directory time/date is changed when you write to an already existing file. It does change when you create a new file, and that is exactly what dpkg does. It first creates the new file (with a different name) and if all files are unpacked correctly, all of them are mv'ed to the correct names. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
