Libzypp History File

Log important events like installation/deletion of packages and repositories. More...

Log important events like installation/deletion of packages and repositories.

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

See also

User data as transaction id

Action Columns

Install

A package has been installed.

• 1 timestamp
• 2 action ID ("install")
• 3 package name
• 4 package epoch:version-release
• 5 package architecture
• 6 requested by (user, pid:appname, or empty (solver))
• 7 repository alias
• 8 package checksum
• 9 userdata/transactionId

Remove

A package has been removed.

• 1 timestamp
• 2 action ID ("remove")
• 3 package name
• 4 package epoch:version-release
• 5 package architecture
• 6 requested by (user, pid:appname, or empty (solver))
• 7 userdata/transactionId

Radd

A repository has been added.

• 1 timestamp
• 2 action ID ("radd")
• 3 repository alias
• 4 primary URL
• 5 userdata/transactionId

Rremove

A repository has been removed.

• 1 timestamp
• 2 action ID ("rremove")
• 3 repository alias
• 4 userdata/transactionId

Ralias

A repository alias has changed.

• 1 timestamp
• 2 action ID ("ralias")
• 3 old alias
• 4 new alias
• 5 userdata/transactionId

Rurl

The primary URL of a repository has changed.

• 1 timestamp
• 2 action ID ("rurl")
• 3 repository alias
• 4 new URL
• 5 userdata/transactionId

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