On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 04:25:50PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2020-07-25 at 16:02, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 07:47:01PM +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > >> Hi all... > >> > >> Please what do those occurrences of `<none>' mean in /var/log/dpgk.log > >> just on > >> the right next to some (and some not) of packages names? > > > > You mean like this: > > > > 2019-10-18 17:09:25 install gcc-8-base:amd64 <none> 8.3.0-6 > > > > I don't know for sure, But grepping around in my logs shows a version > > number in that place, when there's no '<none>'. So my hunch would be > > that it is the prior installed version (when there was one) or <none> > > when there was --uh-- none. > > On mine, I also note that the lines with <none> in column 5 have > 'install' in column 3, whereas the ones with a version number in column > 5 in that column have 'upgrade' in column 3. This seems to back up that > interpretation.
Oh, I forgot to say that I filtered "install" lines. So there are "install" lines with a version number -- this seems to be the action (install can also replace a version). But yes, our takes seem to coincide otherwise. > My guess would be that this is done just to keep the number of columns > per line equal between the install and upgrade cases, most likely > because it makes translating this into a table by columns easier. That makes sense, yes. > I haven't checked the source, and offhand don't know of any obvious > non-source documentation to check, however. We are a lazy pack, ain't we ;-P Cheers -- t
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