Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <40134.194.60.85.4.1091547905.squirrel@194.60.85.4> In-Reply-To: References: <313680C9A886D511A06000204840E1CF08F430B4@whq-msgusr-02.pit.comms.marconi.com> <20040803090946.GN31522@cygbert.vinschen.de> <200408031119.56503.gernot.hillier@siemens.com> <20040803134644.GF16002@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 16:45:05 +0100 (BST) Subject: Re: how to check what cygwin packages are installed on the system ? From: "Robin Bowes" To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.5.1 [CVS] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes On Tue, August 3, 2004 16:19, Andrew DeFaria said: > Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >> 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 Or: $ cygcheck -f /usr/bin/gcc.exe gcc-3.3.1-3 R. -- http://robinbowes.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/