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Seems a shortcoming if not, be rather handy to see what it did and when, if it does, I certainly can't locate where it stores this
I am not sure I understand your problem well, sorry If I give unnecessary information. )
in /var/log there are packages and removed_packages directories(and more) where you can see which packages have been installed or removed
with 'ls -l' you can see the dates too
If you want to see all of this in a log file I don't think it is exist but you can generate one with a script if you want.
/var/lib/slackpkg/install.log: No such file or directory
Which reminds me, PACKAGES.TXT has weird data in it, php 5.6 2019 and so on, ummm I'm on a fresh install from a week ago, so no idea where it gets that crud from
I am not sure I understand your problem well, sorry If I give unnecessary information. )
in /var/log there are packages and removed_packages directories(and more) where you can see which packages have been installed or removed
with 'ls -l' you can see the dates too
If you want to see all of this in a log file I don't think it is exist but you can generate one with a script if you want.
Thats exactly what I have been doing for years, but its a multi step half ##s'd way of going about it, RH and others have had an install log dating back to near when adam and eve were just babies
I know this is more of a slackware problem, since slackpkg just runs pkgtools in the end, but I've been round long enough to know that I don't have a snowflakes chance in hell of convincing Pat to fix that hehe
Thats exactly what I have been doing for years, but its a multi step half ##s'd way of going about it, RH and others have had an install log dating back to near when adam and eve were just babies
I know this is more of a slackware problem, since slackpkg just runs pkgtools in the end, but I've been round long enough to know that I don't have a snowflakes chance in hell of convincing Pat to fix that hehe
Whenever I want to create a log I just send the results/output to a file.
Code:
~# ls -lah /var/lib/pkgtools/packages > /tmp/pkg.log
~# dmesg > /tmp/dmesg.log
If you want to log all slackpkg (or any) screen content on-the-fly do something like this...
The slackpkg tool options '[** ... **]' are your prerogative. Not everything is as easy or facilitating as it could be (thankfully!) and there are very valid reasons why Slackware is what it is. If there's anything you need which is a constant requirement then you could always build a script for it. If not then just use it one time and forget about it. That's what I do to make things a little easier and less time consuming for myself.
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