Logs install and upgrade actions for apt-get via script

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• 🏗️ Requirements

• ⚡ Quick Start

• 🧰 Usage

• 🗒 Notes

• 📈 Contributing

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• 📇 Attribution

• ⚖️ Licensing

Prerequisites and/or dependencies that this project needs to function properly

• Debian derived distribution

• Sudo or Root permissions

Clone this project...

mkdir -vp ~/git/hub/paranoid-linux

cd ~/git/hub/paranoid-linux

git clone [email protected]:paranoid-linux/script-apt-get.git

Install via symbolic link...

cd ~/git/hub/paranoid-linux/script-apt-get

sudo ./linked-install.sh

Update in the future with Git...

cd ~/git/hub/paranoid-linux/script-apt-get

git pull origin main

Install a package with apt-get...

sudo script-apt-get install vim

... Above command will generate a log file at a path similar to...

~/Documents/logs/apt-get/install/20200915__vim.script

Or upgrade installed packages with apt-get...

sudo script-apt-get upgrade

... Above command will write a log file to a path similar to...

~/Documents/logs/apt-get/upgrade/20200915.script

This repository may not be feature complete and/or fully functional, Pull Requests that add features or fix bugs are certainly welcomed.

To customize where log files are saved set the _log_dir environment variable per command...

_log_dir="${HOME}/script-logs" script-apt-get upgrade

... or via configuration.sh file, eg...

tee -a ~/git/hub/paranoid-linux/script-apt-get/configurations.sh <<'EOF'
_log_dir="${HOME}/script-logs" script-apt-get upgrade
EOF

For multi-user systems it is a good idea to clone this project to a root owned directory instead, eg...

cd /usr/local/etc

sudo git clone [email protected]:paranoid-linux/script-apt-get.git

cd script-apt-get

sudo ./linked-install.sh

Options for contributing to script-apt-get and paranoid-linux

Start making a Fork of this repository to an account that you have write permissions for.

• Add remote for fork URL. The URL syntax is [email protected]:<NAME>/<REPO>.git...

cd ~/git/hub/paranoid-linux/script-apt-get

git remote add fork [email protected]:<NAME>/script-apt-get.git

• Commit your changes and push to your fork, eg. to fix an issue...

cd ~/git/hub/paranoid-linux/script-apt-get


git commit -F- <<'EOF'
:bug: Fixes #42 Issue


**Edits**


- `<SCRIPT-NAME>` script, fixes some bug reported in issue
EOF


git push fork main

Note, the -u option may be used to set fork as the default remote, eg. git push fork main however, this will also default the fork remote for pulling from too! Meaning that pulling updates from origin must be done explicitly, eg. git pull origin main

• Then on GitHub submit a Pull Request through the Web-UI, the URL syntax is https://github.com/<NAME>/<REPO>/pull/new/<BRANCH>

Note; to decrease the chances of your Pull Request needing modifications before being accepted, please check the dot-github repository for detailed contributing guidelines.

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Logs `install` and `upgrade` actions for `apt-get` via `script`
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