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samhain

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Registered: 2007-07-19

Posts: 39

How do I get a list of the most recent upgraded packages?

Hi there,

I want to get a list of the last upgrades using pacman.
I´ve been looking for a way to do it in the man page, but either I´m blind or there is not such an option.

I know that I can just do:

ls --sort time /var/cache/pacman/pkg/|head

But what if I clean the cache regularly?

Does the pacman database store the upgrade or installation date for each package? If so, how can I access this data?

Cheers,

Edit: I know that "pacman -Qi" gives me the date of installation of individual packages, but what I want is to be able to sort the list of all installed packages by date.

Last edited by samhain (2008-04-30 11:41:19)

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dolby

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Registered: 2006-08-08

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Re: How do I get a list of the most recent upgraded packages?

/var/log/pacman is the file you want

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samhain

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Registered: 2007-07-19

Posts: 39

Re: How do I get a list of the most recent upgraded packages?

/var/log/pacman is the file you want

Thanks.

cat /var/log/pacman.log | grep "] upgraded" | tail

Gives me what I need

I would prefer if pacman had some option for sorting the queries, but for now, this will do fine.

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shining

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Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: How do I get a list of the most recent upgraded packages?

I would prefer if pacman had some option for sorting the queries, but for now, this will do fine.

I find that way perfectly fine, and not only for now.
But you can customize pacman for your own needs if you like, it's open

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Maki

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From: Skopje, Macedonia

Registered: 2007-10-16

Posts: 344

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Re: How do I get a list of the most recent upgraded packages?

You could make a pacman wrapper that could do that, i for one use tupac for faster searching, tupac uses yaourt which i use for building packages from AUR ( aka the extra repo ) and yaourt uses pacman. if you have the idea what the query sorter would be ( and its not to complex ) you could modify yaourt to do that.

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