On Monday 24 June 2002 18:03, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 11:25:33AM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > > On Sunday 23 June 2002 23:40, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > > Thanks Brian for the CVS tips. But even if I were to go that route I > > > must still locate all the files except for in /home that I have > > > changed from the virgin debian system. > > > > I imagine it would be relatively straight forward to write a shell script > > that uses dpkg --listfiles to get a list of files for a given package > > than compare their modification time against the datetime when the > > package was installed. > > The modtime of an unmodified file from a .deb is not necessarily the > time when the package was installed, since tar (and hence dpkg) > preserves the modtimes it finds in the archive it's unpacking. You would > need to download each .deb and use 'dpkg -c' to get the detailed file > list.
I think I'm starting to see the problem. As far as I can tell, dpkg does not record the datetime when any particular package is installed/upgraded, and I can't find anywhere else where this information is maintained either. The trick then becomes accurately determining this information from some other set of heuristics. Apt obviously know's how to grab a .deb given a package name and set of sources. Perhaps this could be leveraged, so as to avoid reinventing the wheel. Ian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
