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


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.  Also, I
think this kind of query would be easier to implement if setup maintained
a more comprehensive database of files keyed by the filename.  I could
whip up something quick and dirty, but let's first decide on whether to
use the zlib library instead of calling gzip.exe -- that wasn't something
I intended to be permanent.

> Another interesting thing would be to do some ntsec/mkpasswd/mkgroup
> type sanity checks or even to fix up common ntsec problems.
>
> cgf

Yeah.  At least have it check for the group name of "mkpasswd" or
"mkgroup"...  That, however, would require a separate flag, IMO.
	Igor
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