Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 22:16:44 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com> To: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Cc: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: PACKAGESITE spam Message-ID: <20131226111644.GA46781@server.rulingia.com> In-Reply-To: <52B7432D.3070106@bluerosetech.com> References: <52B5DF8C.5050204@gmx.com> <20131221200538.GA60827@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1312220840400.1072@Ace.nina.org> <52B7432D.3070106@bluerosetech.com>
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--lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2013-Dec-22 11:53:17 -0800, Darren Pilgrim <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.co= m> wrote: >Because of that deinstall log. When you use `pkg install` to upgrade a=20 >port, you get something like this: > >Jul 10 23:06:40 chombo pkg-static: ca_root_nss-3.15.1 installed >Nov 29 15:04:52 chombo pkg: ca_root_nss reinstalled: 3.15.2_1 > >That information does not exist in the pkg database. I agree that's a serious bug/regression in the pkg database: With the old pkg system, I could tell when a port was installed by looking at the timestamps on the +COMMENT file. The install time is needed to answer questions like "does this entry in UPDATING affect me" (ie have I rebuilt the port since the entry date). It's something I used regularly and its absence is a PITA. I shouldn't need to rummage through /var/log/messages - and in any case, by default FreeBSD only keeps 500K of messages history (about a month in my case) so the information has probably rotated into the bit bucket. I agree that having a pkg audit trail would be useful. Unfortunately, what we have today is not an audit trail and isn't especially useful. --=20 Peter Jeremy --lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (FreeBSD) iKUEARECAGYFAlK8EBxfFIAAAAAALgAoaXNzdWVyLWZwckBub3RhdGlvbnMub3Bl bnBncC5maWZ0aGhvcnNlbWFuLm5ldDBCRjc3QTcyNTg5NEVCRTY0RjREN0VFRUZF OEE0N0JGRjAwRkI4ODcACgkQ/opHv/APuIecBQCgiqX3kcRjG4gw9EjrxrzCqMEw ZlQAljzw+jE+hRjJ4JSIuH3gp/cALCA= =McFY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ--
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