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To: Studded <Studded@dal.net>
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Subject: Re: A few ports/pkg_* questions. 
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From: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV (Bruce A. Mah)
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If memory serves me right, Studded wrote:
> Jason Nordwick wrote:

> > 3) Has anybody ever thought of installing a port in is own directory and
> > then linking them into the proper place?
> 
> 	I don't know what this means. 

This might refer to something like GNU stow?  It basically allows you to 
install a piece of software "in its own directory" (with its own bin/, lib/, 
and whatever)...it makes symlinks from files in /usr/local/{bin,lib,whatever} 
into files in the port's directory.  Various command line flags let you 
verify, delete, and update the links.

I've been using stow to manage a /usr/local-type filesystem on a Solaris box, 
and it's pretty nice.

Best features of stow:

1.  It allows you to keep multiple versions of a package around and quickly 
(by switching links) change from one version to another.

2.  It's pretty intelligent about how it manages directories and links within 
directories.

3.  You can instantly tell what package a link belongs to, since it's implicit 
in the link target.

4.  It's very portable...just a Perl5 script.  It can be used without 
modification on many different platforms.

Its main weakness (compared to pkg_add, et al) is that *all* it can do is 
manage links within a directory tree.  It's missing functionality such as 
keeping track of dependency information, etc.

Bruce.



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