Re: one for the wishlist

[Marc Espie <espie%nerim.net@localhost>]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:50:47PM +0200, Jörn Clausen wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Maybe this is already doable somehow, maybe this is not worth it...
> Probably I get told to do it myself... Anyway:
> 
> I'd like to see a feature in pkgsrc that creates an automatic log of
> the packages installed, preferably in a human readable format, e.g. a
> text file with one line per record. It should contain information
> 
> - when a package was installed (name, version, timestamp)
> - why it was installed (as dependency of what other package)
> - when a package was updated
> - when a package was removed

I have this on my todo-list as well.

Sensible way to do this, in my opinion, is to use existing facilities, e.g.,
syslog.