Debian question

[Bruce Dawson]

On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 13:14 -0500, Michael ODonnell wrote:
> 
> I'm still not quite sure what y'all are looking for.
> If you want a tool that generates reports like "on this
> date you installed this pkg, which touched these files, and
> then on this date you deinstalled this pkg, which touched
> these files, and then on this date you reinstalled this
> pkg but aborted the operation part way through, so these
> files are now zorched, then on this date you down-revved
> this pkg so these files got reverted, etc, etc" then I
> suspect you're out of luck.  If any distribution offers
> capabilities like that I'll be impressed.

All I was looking for was the installation date of an installed package
- which is something RPM provides. (The ability to sort by it would be
nice too, but I'm just searching for the basic functionality right now).

I was half expecting dpkg to have it, given all the hype that the Debian
package manager gets. But my expectations appear to have been wrong.

> Meanwhile, allow me to suggest "man dpkg-query" ...

Did that. I can't find any documentation for the variables --showformat
accepts, and I'm tired of pawing through sources.

From rom what I can tell, dpkg doesn't have the logic infrastructure to
supports an installation date. But as I said, I'm tired of rummaging
through sources for information or to figure out how things work.

--Bruce
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