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Re: [PATCH] Checking integrity of installed packages in cygcheck
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 12:12:11 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Checking integrity of installed packages in cygcheck
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0308071843550.5132-200000@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
- Reply-to: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 06:50:10PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>Hi,
>
>This patch adds most of the capability of the script from
><http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-08/msg00106.html> to cygcheck.
>It is triggered by the "-c" flag to cygcheck. "Integrity" is a rather
>strong word, actually, as all this checks for is the existence of files
>and directories, but this could be further built upon (for example, tar
>has a diff option that could be useful). The patch is against cvs HEAD
>with my previous micropatch
>(<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2003-q3/msg00058.html>) applied.
>Comments and suggestions welcome.
I'm getting some odd errors when I apply this patch:
"4NT: Unknown command f:"
(as you can see I use 4NT).
I haven't had time to debug where these are coming from but I get one
for every file displayed.
Btw, have you considered some kind of rpm -f functionality? That would
allow a user to do a:
cygcheck -f /usr/bin/ls.exe
fileutils-4.1-2
Also some kind of functionality which would allow cygcheck to query
the same files as the web search would be really cool. Something like
a:
cygcheck --whatprovides /usr/bin/ls.exe
would be really useful.
Another interesting thing would be to do some ntsec/mkpasswd/mkgroup
type sanity checks or even to fix up common ntsec problems.
cgf