Twapake

Twapake is a system administration utility for Slackware and Slackware based operating systems only, making easier the management of last installed packages and making easier seeing the installation date of a package.

Features

• Print a simple list of N packages sorted by installed date to STDOUT.
• Print a snapshot logfile to the /var/log/twapake/ directory. A snapshot is a list of all packages sorted by installed date at T time. The installed date is printed too, making easier to see when a package has been installed on your system.
• Remove the last N installed packages.
• Print the packages installed since a choosen date.
• Launch a Curses User Interface for an easy removal.

Download

Sources tarballs and Slackware packages can be found there: http://people.salixos.org/fredg/packages/twapake/

The source code is also available through the Salix svn repository. You can get it with:

 $ svn co https://salix.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/salix/twapake
    

Goals

• make a daily snapshot log of installed packages with the help of a cron job. If you are getting into troubles, it will be easy to see which new packages have been installed since time T.
• easier to see what been installed and what have to be remove. If you like testing a lot off packages, some of them making you install a bunch of extra libs. You can print a twapake snapshot before and after your testing party. The difference will give you the list of what you have to remove to retrieve a clean system.
• easier to see and/or remove the last N installed packages

Screenshots

These are the screenshots of the Curses User Interface.

Usages

• What is a twapkake snapshot (twapake --logfile)

It's a file /var/log/twapake/$date_twapake.log

 Twapake snapshot on Thu Feb 17 04:40:49 2011
 ===========================================================================
 Installed dates             Packages (total: 793)
 ------------------------    ----------------------------------------
 Mon Feb 14 19:58:22 2011    salixtools-gtk-1.2.0-noarch-1gv
 Mon Feb 14 19:58:20 2011    salixtools-1.5.0-noarch-1gv
 Mon Feb 14 19:58:19 2011    depfinder-1.3.8-x86_64-1gv
 Sun Feb 13 19:46:30 2011    libetpan-1.0-x86_64-1tm
 Sun Feb 13 19:46:30 2011    claws-mail-3.7.8-x86_64-2tm
 Sun Feb 13 19:07:07 2011    libmatroska-1.0.0-x86_64-1gv
 Sun Feb 13 19:07:07 2011    vlc-1.1.7-x86_64-1tm
 Sun Feb 13 19:07:07 2011    libebml-1.0.0-x86_64-1gv
 Sun Feb 13 19:07:06 2011    libdvbpsi-0.1.7-x86_64-1tm
 Sun Feb 13 14:49:04 2011    etm-702-x86_64-1fg
 Sun Feb 13 14:34:34 2011    wxPython-2.8.11.0-x86_64-1ab
 Sun Feb 13 14:28:17 2011    slapt-update-service-0.5.0b-x86_64-2gv
 Sun Feb 13 14:28:09 2011    ...
 ...
 ..
 .

• For a less detailed list (twapake -i)

 salixtools-gtk-1.2.0-noarch-1gv
 salixtools-1.5.0-noarch-1gv
 depfinder-1.3.8-x86_64-1gv
 libetpan-1.0-x86_64-1tm
 claws-mail-3.7.8-x86_64-2tm
 libmatroska-1.0.0-x86_64-1gv
 vlc-1.1.7-x86_64-1tm
 libebml-1.0.0-x86_64-1gv
 libdvbpsi-0.1.7-x86_64-1tm
 etm-702-x86_64-1fg
 ...
 ..
 .

• To see the last 5 installed packages :

 # twapake -i -n 5

• To remove the last 5 installed packages :

 # twapake -r -n 5

• To show the packages installed since the 2011-05-25

# twapake -s -c 2011-05-25

• To read the man page

# man twapake