On 2020-07-25 16:25 -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.
>
> 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.
>
> I haven't checked the source, and offhand don't know of any obvious
> non-source documentation to check, however.
It's mentioned in the dpkg manpage, search for the --log option there.
Cheers,
Sven
