Re: last time of rpmdb modification

[R P Herrold <herrold owlriver com>]

On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Alfredo Kengi Kojima wrote:

> Is there a way to figure what was the last time
> the user installed, removed or upgraded some
> package? (ie: modified the rpm db)
> stat() doesn't work, because even queries cause
> changes in the timestamps.

simple scripting issue:

see:  rpm --querytags

rpm -qi `rpm -qa --qf "%{INSTALLTIME}\t%{name}\n" | \
	sort -n | tail -1 | awk '{print $2}' `

will show the LAST installed package.


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