On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 04:27:10PM -0500, Mike Hicks (hick0088 at tc.umn.edu) wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 15:39, Mike Hicks wrote:
> > Also, a bunch of people were interested in a utility that could show the
> > installation history of packages on a system.  This is useful for many
> > people, both from a personal and enterprise perspective.  It's always
> > nice to have some assistance in figuring out what package version was
> > the last one that worked.
> 
> Whoops..  Forgot to mention that no one had a good suggestion for
> something that could do this.  If anyone on the list knows something,
> please let us know..

I too have looked for something like this on a debian-based system.
On rpm-based systems, I use rpm -qa --last | sort .  It doesn't show full
history but it atleast shows what was installed recently.


-- 
Amy Tanner
amy at real-time.com
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