From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Oct 7 14:13:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA24078 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 14:13:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xcf.berkeley.edu (scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA24018 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 14:13:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nordwick@xcf.berkeley.edu) Received: (qmail 9362 invoked from network); 7 Oct 1998 21:07:47 -0000 Received: from ip162.san-francisco22.ca.pub-ip.psi.net (HELO yasmeen) (38.28.60.162) by scam.xcf.berkeley.edu with SMTP; 7 Oct 1998 21:07:47 -0000 Message-ID: <013001bdf235$9526d320$a23c1c26@yasmeen.citycom.com> From: "Jason Nordwick" To: , "Studded" Cc: Subject: Re: A few ports/pkg_* questions. Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 13:50:07 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >> > 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. > [description of snow deleted] Yeah, thats what Im talking about. Does anybody else like/dislike this. >From a sysadmin standpoint, it is really nice, and fairly invisible to users. Jay -- 4.4 > 98 http://www.xcf.berkeley.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message