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Re: Ideas re problem reporting
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-idd at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 23:33:02 -0400
- Subject: Re: Ideas re problem reporting
- References: <o5bpcv867rhlo17vfmclotlv5nkr9f9m8f@4ax.com> <20030716002142.E1F2434381@nevin.research.canon.com.au>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 10:21:42AM +1000, luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au wrote:
>On 22 May, Sam Edge wrote:
>> In addition, you are likely to get little help here with any problem
>> unless you installed cygwin via the "official" setup.exe that you can
>> get via the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://www.cygwin.com/
>> web site.
>
>If this is a common occurrence (installing but bypassing setup.exe
>somehow), then maybe it should finish by adding a registry entry to say
>it did the install (and whether partial or full), so that problem
>reports that include the system info would let you know this.
cygcheck -rsv (or cygcheck -c) already implies this. If the output
from cycheck doesn't include package information, then the packages
weren't installed via setup.exe.
cgf
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