how to check what cygwin packages are installed on the system ?

[Andrew DeFaria]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 11:19:55AM +0200, Gernot Hillier wrote:
>
>> Am Dienstag, 3. August 2004 11:09 schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
>>
>>> On Aug 3 04:57, Povolotsky, Alexander wrote:
>>>
>>>> How to check what Cygwin packages are installed on the system ?
>>>
>>> cygcheck -c
>>
>> You can also have a look in /etc/setup.
>
> And you would do that rather than use the tool designed for providing 
> the information, because...?

To answer the question: "Which package brought in this file?" as in:

$ cd /etc/setup
$ str=gcc.exe
$ for pkg in *.gz; do
 >   zcat $pkg | grep -q $str
 >   if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
 >     echo $str appears in $pkg
 >   fi
 > done

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