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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 01:43:07 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-idd AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Ideas re problem reporting
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On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 03:31:00PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 13:33, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> cygcheck -rsv (or cygcheck -c) already implies this.  If the output
>> from cycheck doesn't include package information, then the packages
>> weren't installed via setup.exe.
>
>I've seen at least one script that (badly) reverse engineered setup's db
>files and attempts to create compatible ones.

Really?  Where was this?  We should certainly be on the lookout for
this.

cgf

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