Subject: Re: listing change of installed packages
To: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
From: Tracy J. Di Marco White <gendalia@iastate.edu>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 04/26/2001 01:07:16
}[ On Wednesday, April 25, 2001 at 15:12:12 (CDT), Tracy Di Marco White wrote: 
]
}> Subject: listing change of installed packages
}>
}> Something I've been wanting for a while was something running from (for
}> example) the daily script that would compare the installed packages
}> (as listed in /var/db/pkg) to the installed packages from the previous
}> day.
}
}Do you mean like this nifty little change I made to my /etc/daily?
}
}+ 
}+ # this must be done before running /etc/security if you want
}+ # /etc/changelist handling to track changes in packages....
}+ #
}+ if checkyesno run_pkg_info; then
}+ 	pkg_info | sort > /etc/packages
}+ fi
}  
}  if checkyesno run_security; then

That's excellent, thanks.

Tracy J. Di Marco White
Project Vincent Systems Manager
gendalia@iastate.edu