Retired

Reason for Retirement: Duplicate of migrated issue 364. Please confirm if this
is still a problem in the latest version of Smart.

Please reopen this issue in the new bugtracker if it is still an issue.

New Bugtracker : http://bugs.launchpad.net/smart

further details:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/smart/+spec/bug-reporting-migration.

Thanks for the tip, I'll take that into consideration. About the title, this is
a general issue, not just an OpenSUSE request.

I attached an lua script that keeps a log file for packages changed 
(added, removed, upgrade) with apt.  Just as an example.

We've already talked about this while I was implementing the 'rpm-log-level'
switch. In fact, I was thinking about it too because I'm in the need for it. We
hope to get it working soon. Thanks for your report.

For most systems that I administrate, I keep a logfile 
which also includes when, which package was installed, removed 
or what ever. It would be a very cool feature for smart to provide 
such a logfile or hooks for it, as people would like to do this differently. 
Some might prefer a database, others a textfile that would need pre- or 
appending. 
 
For me this feature almost is a requirement for a package manager 
and we realised it with an apt shell wrapper that fires up an editor 
on the system logfile before the changes.