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Re: Ideas re problem reporting


On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 10:21:42AM +1000, luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au wrote:
>On 22 May, Sam Edge wrote:
>>  In addition, you are likely to get little help here with any problem 
>>  unless you installed cygwin via the "official" setup.exe that you can 
>>  get via the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://www.cygwin.com/ 
>>  web site. 
>
>If this is a common occurrence (installing but bypassing setup.exe
>somehow), then maybe it should finish by adding a registry entry to say
>it did the install (and whether partial or full), so that problem
>reports that include the system info would let you know this.

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.

cgf

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