Package Install Date

Package Install Date

[Joel Breazeale]

I am looking for a clean way to determine the install date/time for a
Cygwin package.  I have a hack that suffices, just want to see what
alternatives exist.  Thanks!

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Re: Package Install Date

[Achim Gratz]

Joel Breazeale writes:
> I am looking for a clean way to determine the install date/time for a
> Cygwin package.  I have a hack that suffices, just want to see what
> alternatives exist.  Thanks!

Provided nothing messes with the clock and the timestamps, look at the
mtime of /etc/setup/pkgname.lst.gz (it's produced by setup during
installation).


Regards,
Achim.
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Re: Package Install Date

[Joel Breazeale]

Thank you for your reply Achim!  I tried your suggestion and it was
much faster than my kludge!  There is one nit though, that libpopt0
shows up under cygcheck -c but is not present in
/etc/setup/libpopt0.lst.gz.  Also, under cygcheck -l libpopt0 has no
files.  One would think if I want to find all the installed packages
that cygcheck would be the source of truth!  As a workaround I can
ignore any cygcheck entry that doesn't have a corresponding file in
/etc/setup.  If there is any concern from anyone about the mismatch of
cygcheck and /etc/setup contents I would be glad to share details.

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 2:50 PM, Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de> wrote:
> Joel Breazeale writes:
>> I am looking for a clean way to determine the install date/time for a
>> Cygwin package.  I have a hack that suffices, just want to see what
>> alternatives exist.  Thanks!
>
> Provided nothing messes with the clock and the timestamps, look at the
> mtime of /etc/setup/pkgname.lst.gz (it's produced by setup during
> installation).
>
>
> Regards,
> Achim.
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Re: Package Install Date

[Ken Brown]

On 6/8/2016 5:29 PM, Joel Breazeale wrote:
> Thank you for your reply Achim!  I tried your suggestion and it was
> much faster than my kludge!  There is one nit though, that libpopt0
> shows up under cygcheck -c but is not present in
> /etc/setup/libpopt0.lst.gz.  Also, under cygcheck -l libpopt0 has no
> files.

This happens because libpopt0 is an obsolete package (on 32-bit Cygwin).

Ken


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Re: Package Install Date

[Joel Breazeale]

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I went through my cygwin@cygwin.com emails and found yours!  Please accept
my belated thank you for your reply!

--Joel

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 5:10 PM Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> wrote:

> On 6/8/2016 5:29 PM, Joel Breazeale wrote:
> > Thank you for your reply Achim!  I tried your suggestion and it was
> > much faster than my kludge!  There is one nit though, that libpopt0
> > shows up under cygcheck -c but is not present in
> > /etc/setup/libpopt0.lst.gz.  Also, under cygcheck -l libpopt0 has no
> > files.
>
> This happens because libpopt0 is an obsolete package (on 32-bit Cygwin).
>
> Ken
>
>
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Re: Package Install Date

[Joel Breazeale]

Andrey,

My goal is to build a list of all the installed packages in
chronological order.  With such a list I can see which package were
installed beyond the initial set.  The reason for this is to be able
to tell a colleague what to install to get their Cygwin configured
like mine so they can use tools I've created.

I was hoping a package install date/time would be provided by the
package management system.  Absent an official package install
date/time I'll take whatever I can scrounge up!  A stat of <package>
in /etc/setup/<package>.lst.gz gives me a "Birth" date/time which is
sufficient for my purposes.  For example:

$ pkginstalldate 2>/dev/null | sort
. . .
2016-05-24 13:28:27.839145400 -0500 xproto
2016-05-24 13:28:27.937145400 -0500 zlib-devel
2016-05-24 13:28:27.958145400 -0500 znc
2016-05-24 13:28:28.302145400 -0500 znc-perl
2016-05-25 08:52:38.208000000 -0500 m4
2016-05-26 11:07:30.588000000 -0500 vim
2016-05-26 11:07:30.692000000 -0500 vim-common
2016-05-26 11:07:33.714000000 -0500 xxd
2016-06-06 14:31:01.692765800 -0500 girepository-GdkPixbuf2.0
2016-06-06 14:31:01.708365700 -0500 girepository-Gst1.0
2016-06-06 14:31:01.724965600 -0500 girepository-GstInterfaces1.0
2016-06-06 14:31:01.803965100 -0500 libcroco0.6_3
2016-06-06 14:31:01.803965100 -0500 libfontconfig-common
2016-06-06 14:31:01.879364700 -0500 libfontconfig-devel
2016-06-06 14:31:01.911564500 -0500 libfontconfig1
2016-06-06 14:31:01.927164400 -0500 libgailutil18
2016-06-06 14:31:01.942764300 -0500 libgdk_pixbuf2.0-devel
2016-06-06 14:31:01.943764300 -0500 libgdk_pixbuf2.0_0
2016-06-06 14:31:02.263162400 -0500 libglib2.0-devel
2016-06-06 14:31:02.756159400 -0500 libglib2.0_0
2016-06-06 14:31:03.294556500 -0500 libgstinterfaces1.0_0
2016-06-06 14:31:03.356956100 -0500 libgstreamer1.0_0
2016-06-06 14:31:03.524955100 -0500 libgtk2.0-devel
2016-06-06 14:31:03.941952600 -0500 libgtk2.0_0
2016-06-06 14:31:04.804547500 -0500 libhdf5hl_10
2016-06-06 14:31:04.809547500 -0500 liborc0.4_0
2016-06-06 14:31:04.850747300 -0500 libpq5
2016-06-06 14:31:04.866347200 -0500 perl-B-Generate
2016-06-06 14:31:04.881947100 -0500 perl-Capture-Tiny
2016-06-06 14:31:04.897547000 -0500 perl-Config-Perl-V
2016-06-06 14:31:04.898547000 -0500 perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker
2016-06-06 14:31:05.054346200 -0500 perl-HTTP-Tiny
2016-06-06 14:31:05.104145900 -0500 perl-List-AllUtils
2016-06-06 14:31:05.119745800 -0500 perl-List-MoreUtils
2016-06-06 14:31:05.152945600 -0500 perl-List-SomeUtils
2016-06-06 14:31:06.376138400 -0500 unzip

The above helps me to remember I installed m4, vim and unzip beyond my
initial setup.

[I use /dev/null because of libpopt0 as mentioned in earlier
discussion.  I haven't quite gotten to the point where I feel
comfortable ignoring the error generated for it.]

--Joel

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru> wrote:
> Greetings, Joel Breazeale!
>
>> I am looking for a clean way to determine the install date/time for a
>> Cygwin package.  I have a hack that suffices, just want to see what
>> alternatives exist.  Thanks!
>
> How do you define this "install date" ?
> The very first installation of any Cygwin package?
> %CYGROOT%/var/log/setup.log may contain this information.
> Or may not.
>
>
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> With best regards,
> Andrey Repin
> Wednesday, June 8, 2016 22:43:45
>
> Sorry for my terrible english...
>

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Re: Package Install Date

[Achim Gratz]

Joel Breazeale writes:
> My goal is to build a list of all the installed packages in
> chronological order.  With such a list I can see which package were
> installed beyond the initial set.  The reason for this is to be able
> to tell a colleague what to install to get their Cygwin configured
> like mine so they can use tools I've created.

The easier way of doing that is using the list of packages you have in
/etc/setup/installed.db.  You can even copy that over to another machine
of the same architecture, merge it with the local installed.db by
setting the package version of any package missing in the local
installed.db to 0.0-0 and just fire up setup and it will install all the
missing packages (plus update the ones already there if necessary).


Regards,
Achim.
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