dpkg-history

Be the change you wish to see in the world

As a (primarily) Ubuntu user, one thing I can safely say about my time working with RHEL is this: I miss yum history…

so I decided to get started writing this little ditty:

dpkg-history parses the dpkg.log file to give you some yum history like functionality, with more on the way!

dpkg-history v0.1 beta “Just Stable Enough” edition is (in its current incarnation) a diagnostic tool that allows debian system administrators to get a quickly generated at-a-glance of the currently logged dpkg history without having to dig through dpkg.log files.

Set Up

Download the latest release above or clone the git repo
run pip3 install -r dpkg-history/requirements.txt
dpkg-history can be linked or deployed and updated with git pull.

Usage

I’m still working on some things but for right now:

What works:

--list Show last 30 days worth of jobs in dpkg.log
- --show-last Show last days of jobs
- --show-all Show ALL jobs in dpkg.log
--info Show detailed information about the specified job

Thoughts about dpkg-history

I’m still working on this but that doesn’t mean that I’m not always looking for new feature ideas and new ways of doing things. I like to consider myself a professional learner (as in I learn things professionaly, otherwise would just be silly…) and so if you have an idea, please feel free to drop me a line or even better hit me up on github right on the repo itself.

If it doesn’t work for you, no hard feelings? :) as always: PRs welcome!