How can I populate the changelog after running apt-offline install?

[Joel-Robertson]

Good day,

After running the apt-offline install command on my offline machine, I see the menu prompt that has the option to "Display changelog". I also see the note that says "No changelog available". How can I populate the changelog so that I can keep track of what is changing on my offline machine every month?

J

[rickysarraf]

What you are looking for is the --generate-changelog option when using the set command.

rrs@priyasi:~$ apt-offline set --help
usage: apt-offline set [-h] [--verbose] [--quiet] [--simulate] [--install-packages [PKG ...]] [--install-src-packages [SOURCE PKG ...]] [--src-build-dep] [--release release_name] [--update]
                       [--upgrade] [--upgrade-type upgrade] [--generate-changelog] [--apt-backend apt-get]
                       apt-offline.sig

positional arguments:
  apt-offline.sig       Generate a signature file

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --verbose             Enable verbose messages
  --quiet               Enable quiet mode
  --simulate            Just simulate. Very helpful when debugging
  --install-packages [PKG ...]
                        Packages that need to be installed
  --install-src-packages [SOURCE PKG ...]
                        Source Packages that need to be installed
  --src-build-dep       Install Build Dependency packages for requested source packages
  --release release_name
                        Release target to install packages from
  --update              Generate Signature to update APT Database
  --upgrade             Generate Signature of packages to be upgraded
  --upgrade-type upgrade
                        Type of upgrade to do. Use one of upgrade, dist-upgrade, dselect-ugprade
  --generate-changelog  Generate changelog of the version to be downloaded
  --apt-backend apt-get
                        APT backend to use. One of: apt, apt-get, python-apt
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[Joel-Robertson]

Perfect, thank you for the response. This is exactly what I was looking for.

J