Re: how to check what cygwin packages are installed on the system ?

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 10:58:48AM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
>On Tuesday, August 03, 2004 10:45 AM, Robin Bowes wrote
>
>> On Tue, August 3, 2004 16:19, Andrew DeFaria said:
>>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> And you would do that rather than use the tool designed for
>>>> providing 
>>>> the information, because...?
>>> 
>>> To answer the question: "Which package brought in this file?" as in:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> $ cd /etc/setup
>>> $ str=gcc.exe
>>> $ for pkg in *.gz; do
>>> 
>>>> zcat $pkg | grep -q $str if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then echo $str appears in
>>>> $pkg fi done 
>> 
>> Or:
>> 
>> $ cygcheck -f /usr/bin/gcc.exe
>> gcc-3.3.1-3
>> 
>> R.
>> --
>> http://robinbowes.com
>
>$ cygcheck -f /etc/inetd.conf
><nothing>
>
>$ for pkg in *.gz; do zcat $pkg | grep -q "inetd.conf"; if [ $? -eq 0 ];
>then echo $str appears in $pkg; fi; done
>appears in xinetd.lst.gz
>
>cygcheck -f works for some files apparently, but not all.

Yeah, that's clearly a good reason *not* to use cygcheck at all and to
just write your own shell script instead.

In fact, the next time someone finds a bug in the cygwin DLL, I'd suggest
just writing all of cygwin's functionality as a shell script, just to
be safe.

cgf

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