Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"?

From	<tomas@tuxteam.de>
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Subject	Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"?
Date	2023-10-03 08:30 +0200
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On Mon, Oct 02, 2023 at 11:24:04PM -0500, David Wright wrote:

[...]

> If you have complete logs and try this, presumably coming up with a
> sorted list of apt-installed packages (remembering --unique) from its
> history, and a similar list from the ' install ' lines in dpkg.log*,
> bear in mind that you need to ignore the dpkg.log until about when
> locales is installed, as APT never sees a load of packages installed
> before that point.

[...]

Very good points you make, all of them. Thanks.
> 
> Also be careful if you're tempted to sort dpkg.log's install lines
> by time, instead of grepping the logs in the correct (non-collating)
> order, because for people in the western hemisphere, the packages you
> want to ignore will have UTC timestamps, placing them in the midst
> of packages installed after the d-i has finished. (The timestamps
> jump from UTC to localtime after locales is installed.)

Eek. And as I've seen they have no time offset indicators, so
the times even can be ambiguous (winter to summer transition).
I always thought it's a bad idea to use anything else than UTC
in logs.

Cheers
-- 
t

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How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"? Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012@yahoo.com> - 2023-10-02 12:10 +0200
  Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-10-02 12:20 +0200
  Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"? "Marco M." <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2023-10-02 12:20 +0200
    Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"? Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012@yahoo.com> - 2023-10-02 15:30 +0200
      Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"? "Marco M." <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2023-10-02 15:50 +0200
      Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2023-10-02 15:50 +0200
        Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-10-02 16:00 +0200
          Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-10-02 16:10 +0200
            Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-10-03 06:30 +0200
              Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-10-03 08:30 +0200
          Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2023-10-02 16:10 +0200
  Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"? Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-10-02 13:00 +0200
  Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"? Mike Castle <dalgoda+debian@gmail.com> - 2023-10-04 05:00 +0200
    Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"? Mike Castle <dalgoda+debian@gmail.com> - 2023-10-04 05:20 +0200
    Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"? Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-10-04 09:50 +0200
    Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-10-05 06:20 +0200
      Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"? John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2023-10-05 08:10 +0200
        Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-10-05 13:00 +0200

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