openSUSE:Libzypp history

Libzypp

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Purpose

trace back

package origin
package requester (user/dependencies)
which packages were ever installed

History file

Location

The default location is /var/log/zypp/history. This can be changed via history.logfile key in /etc/zypp/zypp.conf.

Format

CSV file with pipe character (|) as the value separator
one event per line
different actions have different set of values (columns), see the tables below
lines starting with # are treated as comments

The following are tables of history log values for each known action. Each line starts with a timestamp and an action ID.

**install** - package has been installed
col	description
1	timestamp
2	action ID ("`install`")
3	package name
4	package epoch:version-release
5	package architecture
6	requested by (user@hostname, pid:appname, or empty (solver))
7	repository alias
8	package checksum

**remove** - package has been removed
col	description
1	timestamp
2	action ID ("`remove`")
3	package name
4	package epoch:version-release
5	package architecture
6	requested by (user@hostname, pid:appname, or empty (solver))

**radd** - repository has been added
col	description
1	timestamp
2	action ID ("`radd`")
3	repository alias
4	primary URL

**rremove** - repository has been removed
col	description
1	timestamp
2	action ID ("`rremove`")
3	repository alias

**ralias** - repository alias has changed
col	description
1	timestamp
2	action ID ("`ralias`")
3	old alias
4	new alias

**rurl** - primary URL of repository has changed
col	description
1	timestamp
2	action ID ("`rurl`")
3	repository alias
4	new URL

Example

2008-09-24 11:48:58|rremove|packman
2008-09-24 11:50:02|radd   |packman|http://packman.iu-bremen.de/suse/11.0
2008-09-24 11:53:10|install|amarok-yauap|1.4.10-25|x86_64||factory|4421dfa718ab73c805c1c695c97b1b67f39bf2f3
2008-09-24 11:53:25|install|amarok-lang|1.4.10-25|x86_64||factory|691030edafcc4fbc22aa225350f9de32974e4bc2
# Additional rpm output:
# warning: /var/cache/zypp/packages/packman/x86_64/amarok-1.4.10-100.pm.1.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 9a795806
#
2008-09-24 11:53:45|install|amarok|1.4.10-100.pm.1|x86_64|root@kompost|packman|ee0fffa1e4eeaaeb8799bd05c6882ef74100d681

API

Write API

HistoryLog class should be used to write to this file.

Read API

TODO