On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 08:07:33PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 03:59:00PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >>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. > >-f checks the installed database in /etc/setup/package.lst.gz (similar >to rpm -f), --whatprovides checks the "database" on sources.redhat.com >(similar to Red Hat's up2date?). That's what I meant by "the same files >as the web search". > >I don't see why -f wouldn't be relatively trivial to do since we know now >have code in cygcheck which uncompresses and opens each of the package >files. --whatprovides would require a net query, of course. That would >be more complicated.
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