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#1 2022-12-09 17:11:21

nonZero
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[SOLVED] Does yay and paru keep a log?

pacman saves installation logs to `/var/log/pacman'.
Does yay and paru store logs as well?
If not, can this be enabled?

I want to know when I have upgraded package x and which versions.

Thanks!

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#2 2022-12-09 17:34:47

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Re: [SOLVED] Does yay and paru keep a log?

Pacman is your package manager. That information is all recorded in its log.
e.g.

$ paclog --package=qutebrowser-git | paclog --action=upgrade
[...]
[2022-11-01T18:37:25+0000] [ALPM] upgraded qutebrowser-git (2.5.2.r472.gf6d5f7919-1 -> 2.5.2.r482.gdbcc0e251-1)
[2022-11-13T14:11:14+0000] [ALPM] upgraded qutebrowser-git (2.5.2.r482.gdbcc0e251-1 -> 2.5.2.r500.g4e39f9a8c-1)
[2022-11-28T18:13:21+0000] [ALPM] upgraded qutebrowser-git (2.5.2.r500.g4e39f9a8c-1 -> 2.5.2.r519.g8ac1cb686-1)

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#3 2022-12-09 22:28:19

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Re: [SOLVED] Does yay and paru keep a log?

You may be interested in using pkglog.

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#4 2022-12-10 13:20:46

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Re: [SOLVED] Does yay and paru keep a log?

Thank you, but pkglog and paclog read from `/var/log/pacman.log`.
I don't see output from AUR packages installations from yay or paru in this log file.

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#5 2022-12-10 13:31:47

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Re: [SOLVED] Does yay and paru keep a log?

I don't see output from AUR packages installations from yay or paru in this log file.

yay and paru are both pacman wrappers that use pacman to do the actual installing / removing / updating .
Check the log for any package you know you installed with either of those helpers and you'll find it's listed as installed with a a pacman command .


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#6 2022-12-10 19:57:59

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Re: [SOLVED] Does yay and paru keep a log?

Thank you! My log file had non-text characters, which caused grep to fail!

See: https://unix.stackexchange.com/question … d-a-string

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#7 2022-12-10 21:29:17

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Re: [SOLVED] Does yay and paru keep a log?

Please remember to mark your thread as solved.
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