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Re: A script to check integrity of installed packages
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 21:19:21 -0400
- Subject: Re: A script to check integrity of installed packages
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0308062106050.5132-200000@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 09:15:31PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>Hi,
>
>For some reason some commands (like "man" and "enscript") stopped working
>for me. After investigating, it turned out that parts of my /usr/share
>tree got lost, and I wanted to find out exactly what got zapped without
>having to reinstall everything on my system. I used the attached script
>to look through the installed package database and check my system against
>it. Hopefully, someone will find it useful.
>
>It would have also been nice if something like this were distributed
>either with setup or as a separate package, or if this functionality were
>incorporated into cygcheck. If the latter sounds like a better option, I
>could rewrite the script in C++ and submit the appropriate patch to
>cygcheck.
I think this definitely should be added to cygcheck.
I've asked, from time to time, for volunteers to add more checking to
cygcheck. This would be a nice addition.
cgf