Keep a complete history of apt-get calls
Linux does it right, as all the packages you install with apt-get are logged in /var/log/apt/history.log
. If you want to know what you installed over time this is great.
Unfortunately for some reason both Debian and Ubuntu are doing it wrong, because they rotate these logs away. A year after installation I am losing my history.
So I edit the /etc/logrotate.d/apt
file and throw out this setting:
/var/log/apt/history.log { rotate 12 monthly compress missingok notifempty }
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