Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 09:36:22 -0800 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> To: Jos Backus <josb@cncdsl.com> Cc: libh@FreeBSD.ORG, op-tech@openpackages.org Subject: Re: Managing symlink farms Message-ID: <3A229B96.D7A53D46@acm.org> References: <20001124160721.A1777@lizzy.bugworks.com>
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Jos Backus wrote: > To create a synthetic /usr/local (and others) we use Slink. It appears to be > much more flexible than, for example, GNU stow. > > http://www.eecs.tufts.edu/~couch/Slink/slink.html This looks very nice. I appreciate when simple tools such as this can do so much. I particularly appreciated the lengthy discussion of common system-maintenance tasks and how they correspond to specific features of Slink's model. The ability to integrate remote directories (through symlinks) with collections of locally-installed files looks very nice for anyone setting up e.g., replicated servers or lots of similar workstations. > Also of interest to this discussion may be what the Arusha project is doing, > specifically their take on their package management: > > http://ark.sourceforge.net/pkg-mgmt.html Also looks interesting (and significantly more ambitious). In particular, it looks like it overlaps a lot with what O-P is trying to do... maybe some sharing is in order? - Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-libh" in the body of the message
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