On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 03:59:00PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> [snip] >> 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. > >I'm not sure I see the difference between the two cases above.
-f checks the installed database in /etc/setup/package.lst.gz (similar to rpm -f), --whatprovides checks the "database" on sources.redhat.com (similar to Red Hat's up2date?). That's what I meant by "the same files as the web search". I don't see why -f wouldn't be relatively trivial to do since we know have code in cygcheck which uncompresses and opens each of the package files. --whatprovides would require a net query, of course. That would be more complicated. >> Another interesting thing would be to do some ntsec/mkpasswd/mkgroup >> type sanity checks or even to fix up common ntsec problems. > >Yeah. At least have it check for the group name of "mkpasswd" or >"mkgroup"... That, however, would require a separate flag, IMO. Why a separate flag? Why not always do it with a cygcheck -s? cgf
