Debian question

[Bruce Dawson]

Benjamin Scott wrote:

>On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, at 1:14pm, michael.odonnell at comcast.net wrote:
>  
>
>>I'm still not quite sure what y'all are looking for.
>>  I'm pretty sure Bruce is looking for a way to say this:
>>
>>	rpm -qa --qf '%{INSTALLTIME} %{NAME}\n' | sort -nr | head -50
>>
>>in Debianese.
>>
>>  For those who don't know hatspeak, the above tells RPM to query (-q) all
>>(-a) packages, and use a query output format (--qf) consisting of the time
>>the package was installed (seconds since epoch) and the name.  That gets
>>piped through a reverse sort filter, giving us most recent installs first,
>>and then "head -50" just gives us the 50 most recent packages.
>>
>>    
>>
Yes. That was exactly what I was looking for. Does anyone know of a way 
to coax Debian to do this?

--Bruce