Bug 132496

Summary:	please add package installation history feature
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Jochen Stärk <jstaerk>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Adrian Schröter <adrian.schroeter>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	unspecified
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Hardware:	Other
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Description Jochen Stärk 2005-11-06 14:11:14 UTC

in yast software installation one could provide a list of which packages have been installed when using yast. There could also be an attribute which dependency caused this software to install.

This would make software evaluation much easier, e.g. when one installs kdevelop, over 350MB in several dozend packages are installed. If I'm finished with what I wanted to do the next day all it would be nice to see something like "installed yesterday: kdevelop, automatically resolved dependencies: c++, make, automake..." with the possibility to deinstall those packages.

RPM does obviously not yet support this feature.

Comment 1 Michael Gross 2005-11-07 16:00:11 UTC

Please always select the correct component (SUSE Linux 10.1 in that case). openSUSE is for the wiki at opensuse.org only.

Why should this be logged. When unresolved dependencies occour, YaST shows you a list of those. Moreover, YaST already keeps quite verbose logfiles under /var/log/YaST2. There is also a logfile called y2logRPM which logs all installed packages with a timestamp, which makes this very transparent. This will solve your problem, won't it? It does not tell if this package was installed due to a dependency, but I don't think this is necessary, do you?

I'm closing this bug therefore. If you think otherwhise, please reopen it, providing a reason. (I think this would be rather complicated to implement, because YaST would have to keep a list for that).

Comment 2 Michael Gross 2005-11-07 16:02:35 UTC

I discussed this, so finally the maintainer should decide here.
Jiri: What to you think?

Maby this should be implemented.

Comment 3 Christoph Thiel 2006-04-06 14:36:42 UTC

Please use "rpm -qa --last" to check which package got installed when. Closing => WONTFIX.