Integrate all the apt-get / aptitude installs in history of Synaptic

[Frédéric Petit]

Hello,

by default, when we install a soft with the terminal, this is not show in history of Synaptic, but i think go to the log for check history is not user-friendly...

So i propose to integrate in synaptic all history of apt-get / aptitude in synaptic.

bye

[Frédéric Petit (fraiddo)]

243 votes on brainstrom :)

so, somebody is interesting in that here? :)

[Frédéric Petit (fraiddo)]

up :)

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

The best way to implement this is probably to change the current code in apt that writes out /var/log/apt/term.log to /var/log/apt/term-$date.$time.log and add a header there similar to the header in the synaptic log. Then we can just point synaptics logviewer to /var/log/apt/ and we get the added benefit of having full terminal logs in synaptic too.

[AlfaOmega08 (alfaomega08)]

synaptic writes its log in /root/.synaptic/log (to see it you have to use "su" in the console and than cd to it) in this format:
date.time.log

Eg:
2008-05-01.230109.log

apt writes all its log in /var/log/apt/term.log

The synaptic log contains only basic info about the packages that have been installed/uninstalled/updated, while the apt log contains all the text that apt outputs on the screen.

So we have to change the format and the directory of the apt logs...

[AlfaOmega08 (alfaomega08)]

I forgot to say that only the core-dev can modify the synaptic and apt package...

[Martin Lettner (m.lettner)]

Also automatically installed security (if enabled in software sources) updates are not shown in the synaptic history, but in the apt history.

Everything should be in both histories or they should get merged e.g. like michael vogt said.

[nate (enatefox)]

Please refer to my post for a request like this as well. They should be merged I suppose:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+bug/368314

Has the code needed to give a listing of all installed history in ascending order. Just needs to be added to Synaptic.

TyrosCenva on UbuntuForums (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4281837&postcount=8) came up with this and it can easily be added in I believe:

echo -e "State \tLast change \t \tName" > PkgLog && ls -lsrt /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list | awk '{print $6"\t"$7" "$8"\t"$9}' | sed -e "s/\/var\/lib\/dpkg\/info\///" -e "s/.list//" -e "s/^0\t/Removed \t/" -e "s/^[0-9]*\t/Installed\t/"

[Jānis Kangarooo (kangarooo)]

Yes this is a very strange problem..
Both need to use one database..

[papukaija (papukaija)]

Isn't this done in Karmic?

[Jānis Kangarooo (kangarooo)]

i would be happy to see it finally integrated.. would help getting history easyr

[papukaija (papukaija)]

@Kangarooo: Please use the "this bug affects me too" link instead of commenting it.

[Jānis Kangarooo (kangarooo)]

I have already used it last year.
I hope that helped a little and this is beeing made.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

There is now a /var/log/apt/history.log file that serves this purpose. Bumping back over to Synaptic, since iirc it doesn't support using this yet.