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Re: Check if a package is installed


On 10/3/2012 6:02 PM, Vincent Rivière wrote:
On 01/10/2012 13:24, marco atzeri wrote:
cygcheck -c <package>

I wonder how much "cygcheck -c" is reliable.


For example, the libmpfr4 package.
I delete /bin/cygmpfr-4.dll and /etc/setup/libmpfr4.lst.gz

As a result, I can't compile sources with gcc anymore due to the missing
cygmpfr-4.dll.

But "cygcheck -c libmpfr4" still indicates OK...


Well it has to use something to validate the package. The data it uses is the list of files in the .lst.gz file you deleted. So it can't do allot of validating without that metadata. But I suppose it would make sense to not return "OK" if the list of files is missing.

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