On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 09:15:31PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >Hi, > > > >For some reason some commands (like "man" and "enscript") stopped working > >for me. After investigating, it turned out that parts of my /usr/share > >tree got lost, and I wanted to find out exactly what got zapped without > >having to reinstall everything on my system. I used the attached script > >to look through the installed package database and check my system against > >it. Hopefully, someone will find it useful. > > > >It would have also been nice if something like this were distributed > >either with setup or as a separate package, or if this functionality were > >incorporated into cygcheck. If the latter sounds like a better option, I > >could rewrite the script in C++ and submit the appropriate patch to > >cygcheck. > > I think this definitely should be added to cygcheck. > > I've asked, from time to time, for volunteers to add more checking to > cygcheck. This would be a nice addition. > > cgf
FYI, I just posted a patch to cygcheck to the cygwin-patches list. Just to bring this thread to a closure. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton