twapake - track installed packages

[fredg]

Hi,

In order to keep my system clean when I test/build some packages I have begin to write a small Perl tool that can be use to track and log installed packages.
Maybe this can be usefull for you too .

Homepage: http://www.salixos.org/wiki/index.php/Twapake
Package: http://people.salixos.org/fredg/packages/twapake

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[JRD]

Hey very good idea !!
Is it working *after* having installed some packages ? Or does it need to be installed before ? How it works ?

[fredg]

Hey very good idea !!

Thank you, easiest one are often the best

Is it working *after* having installed some packages ? Or does it need to be installed before ? How it works ?

Twapake doesn't need to be installed before a package X to see when this package has been installed.

When a package is installed or updated, a file with the package name is created in /var/log/packages/.
So, I found usefull to use the mtime of those files to check when a package was installed/updated.

In bash, you can also simply use ls -lt /var/log/packages with other things

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[JRD]

Ok. I've thought of something like that, but wanted to be sure.
So this could be a usefull tool for people who broke their Salix installation by installing weird packages found on the net of some things like this...
I will give it a go. Thanks !

[zAchAry]

Installed packages:

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$ cd /var/log/packages
$ ls -t -1 | head -n 5

Removed packages:

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$ cd /var/log/removed_packages
$ ls -t -1 | head -n 5

Removed scripts:

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$ cd /var/log/removed_scripts
$ ls -t -1 | head -n 5

[fredg]

Yes ZaCHaRY you got it

But I wasn't happy with that because all you got is just a list, I wanted to have every files as object (filename-mtime, a hash in Perl) in order to be able to play with them.

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[fredg]

A little update.

version 0.2:
- add a --nlpkg (-n) option to use with -i to specify how many last packages have to be printed to STDOUT
- change the output format of the twapake snapshot to be more human readable.

i.e: To show the last 10 installed packages:

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# twapake -i -n 10

Available in -current or http://people.salixos.org/fredg/package ... ch-1fg.txz

Comments are welcome

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[tsuren]

I remember something similar when I was still in ZW. Infowonder kindly created a package for me which can do "package roll back". I forgot if it can check for dates of installation, but i found the application highly useful.

it was called zetapkg.

for those interested, the old version is
http://zenwalk.pinguix.com/user-account ... r/zetapkg/
and for the background story:
http://support.zenwalk.org/viewtopic.ph ... =roll+back

And there is no guarantee that the program works (was based on the old ZW).
i wish someone could re-work on something like this in Salix. ah but just a dream.

EDIT: just tested. Works very well. recommended!

[fredg]

it was called zetapkg.

That looks interesting, thanks for the link.

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[fredg]

Little updates:

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twapake -r -n 10

will ask you if you want to remove the last 10 installed packages (you will see the packages list)

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twapake -s

will show you the packages installed today

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twapake -s -c 2011-03-15

will show you the packages installed since 2011-03-15

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