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Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log

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On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 04:25:50PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2020-07-25 at 16:02, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 07:47:01PM +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all...
> >> 
> >> Please what do those occurrences of `<none>' mean in /var/log/dpgk.log just on
> >> the right next to some (and some not) of packages names?
> > 
> > You mean like this:
> > 
> >   2019-10-18 17:09:25 install gcc-8-base:amd64 <none> 8.3.0-6
> > 
> > I don't know for sure, But grepping around in my logs shows a version
> > number in that place, when there's no '<none>'. So my hunch would be
> > that it is the prior installed version (when there was one) or <none>
> > when there was --uh-- none.
> 
> On mine, I also note that the lines with <none> in column 5 have
> 'install' in column 3, whereas the ones with a version number in column
> 5 in that column have 'upgrade' in column 3. This seems to back up that
> interpretation.

Oh, I forgot to say that I filtered "install" lines. So there are
"install" lines with a version number -- this seems to be the
action (install can also replace a version).

But yes, our takes seem to coincide otherwise.

> My guess would be that this is done just to keep the number of columns
> per line equal between the install and upgrade cases, most likely
> because it makes translating this into a table by columns easier.

That makes sense, yes.

> I haven't checked the source, and offhand don't know of any obvious
> non-source documentation to check, however.

We are a lazy pack, ain't we ;-P

Cheers
-- t

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About /var/log/dpgk.log Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2020-07-25 21:50 +0200
  Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-25 22:10 +0200
    Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-07-25 22:30 +0200
      Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-25 23:00 +0200
      Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2020-07-25 23:00 +0200
        Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-25 23:40 +0200
          Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2020-07-27 14:20 +0200
            Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-27 14:30 +0200
            Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-07-27 14:40 +0200
              Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2020-07-27 15:00 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-07-27 15:10 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2020-07-27 16:00 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-07-27 16:10 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2020-07-27 16:30 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-07-27 16:40 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-07-27 17:50 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2020-07-28 01:10 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-07-28 01:20 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2020-07-28 13:30 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-07-27 17:40 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2020-07-27 21:10 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-27 21:20 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2020-07-27 21:50 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-27 21:50 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2020-07-27 22:20 +0200

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