On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 12:29:39PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 12:12:11PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>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. > >The enclosed patch fixes that. > >I'll check this in but it would be nice if (WBNI) this used a mingw gzip >library rather than calling gzip directly. That's a fair amount of >work but I could resurrect the zlib library in winsup if necessary. > >I wonder why setup is using gzip rather than bzip2 for the package files...
On checking this patch a little further, I see that it gives a misleading "OK" when the package file is missing. Could you detect that case? cgf
