Re: [PATCH] Checking integrity of installed packages in cygcheck

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> 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

Yes.  The attached patch (against the initial one applied) does just that.
	Igor
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ChangeLog:
2003-08-09  Igor Pechtchanski  <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>

	* dump_setup.cc (dump_setup): Check for the existence
	of the package list file.

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