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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 16:48:27 -0400
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Subject: Re: setup + cygcheck
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In-Reply-To: <397F4BE0.DCDD9E52@ece.gatech.edu>; from cwilson@ece.gatech.edu on Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 04:36:48PM -0400

On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 04:36:48PM -0400, Charles S. Wilson wrote:
>When I run 'cygcheck -s -v -r' (as adminstrator), part of the output
>contains:
>
>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Installed
>Components\d:/cygwin 
>....
>  binutils = 20000625
>  gcc = 0002.0095.0002.0002
>  cygwin = 0001.0001.0001
>....
>
>among other items.
>
>These answers are not correct. /etc/setup/installed.db shows:
>
>binutils binutils-20000722-1.tar.gz 3370561
>gcc gcc-2.95.2-2.tar.gz 6172267
>cygwin cygwin-1.1.3.tar.gz 1331394
>
>(ok, gcc is correct).
>
>Three things:
>
>#1) should cygcheck be updated to show the new setup database in
>/etc/setup/installed.db, instead of the old database in HKLM?

Yes.

>#2) should setup (the new one) remove the old database from HKLM?

Yes.

>#3) shouldn't cygcheck show the installed program info regardless of
>whether you're running as Administrator or not?

I don't understand this one.  cygcheck currently does this as a
side effect of its prior use of the registry (which was one of
the reasons that I used the registry) and it would do this if
it dumped the installed.db info.  How does administrator access
enter into this?

cgf

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