On 10/1/2012 1:03 PM, Vincent Rivière wrote:
Hello.
I would like to know how to reliably test if a Cygwin package is already
installed (just like setup.exe does).
Currently, I test the existence of /etc/setup/<package>.lst.gz. It works
perfectly for me, but a user reported to me that that file was missing
sometimes.
I see there is also package information listed in
/etc/setup/installed.db. Maybe this information should be considered as
more reliable?
cygcheck -c <package>
It uses the the two information left by setup.exe
/etc/setup/installed.db
/etc/setup/<package>.lst.gz
to provide a status.
Regards
Marco
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