Bug in cygcheck (1.7)

[Robert Pendell]

Charles Wilson wrote:
> cygcheck seems really confused, on my 1.7 installation (which is XPsp3
> on a VMware virtual image). Or I am.
> 
> $ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 VMWARE-XP 1.7.0(0.186/5/3) 2008-08-15 15:17 i686 Cygwin
> 
> $ cygcheck -cd
> Cygwin Package Information
> Package                 Version
> _update-info-dir        00749-1
> aalib                   1.4rc5-2
> aalib-devel             1.4rc5-2
> aalib-devel             1.4rc5-2
> ^^^^^ this is the actual end of the output. It gets truncated very
> early, and the last line gets duplicated.
> 
> But, I have lots of packages installed:
> 
> $ cat /etc/setup/installed.db
> INSTALLED.DB 2
> aalib aalib-1.4rc5-2.tar.bz2 0
> aalib-devel aalib-devel-1.4rc5-2.tar.bz2 0
> alternatives alternatives-1.3.30c-2.tar.bz2 0
> asciidoc asciidoc-8.2.7-1.tar.bz2 0
> ash ash-20040127-4.tar.bz2 0
> atk atk-1.10.3-1.tar.bz2 0
> ... I manually snipped 200 or so lines right here ...
> xterm xterm-229-1.tar.bz2 0
> zip zip-2.32-2.tar.bz2 0
> zlib zlib-1.2.3-2.tar.bz2 0
> _update-info-dir _update-info-dir-00749-1.tar.bz2 0
> 
> 
> I believe the problem has *something* to do with output buffering,
> because the output is "correct" -- that is, the 'head' is what I expect
> -- except that it cuts off too early, and the tail goes into the
> bitbucket.  Also, successive runs of the same cygcheck command don't all
> "cut off" at exactly the same line.
> 
> Redirection makes no difference.
> 
> I'm running these commands from a normal cygwin (bash in cmd) window,
> with CYGWIN='server'.
> 
> I'd attach a 'cygcheck -s -v -r' output, but it's not very informative.
> It's cut off after 10 lines or so.
> 
> --
> Chuck
> [snip]

Heh.  I'm not able to reproduce this at all.  I did it both from a
standard command prompt and from a bash shell without issue.  I'll
attach output from my own system.

$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 Shinji-Winxp 1.7.0(0.186/5/3) 2008-08-15 15:17 i686 Cygwin

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