From owner-freebsd-libh Mon Nov 27 9:36:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org Received: from oberon.dnai.com (oberon.dnai.com [207.181.194.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C03FC37B479 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 09:36:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from neptune.dnai.com (neptune.dnai.com [207.181.194.93]) by oberon.dnai.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA05486; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 09:36:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from acm.org (207-172-123-35.s289.tnt1.sfrn.ca.dialup.rcn.com [207.172.123.35]) by neptune.dnai.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA53866; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 09:36:21 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3A229B96.D7A53D46@acm.org> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 09:36:22 -0800 From: Tim Kientzle Reply-To: kientzle@acm.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jos Backus Cc: libh@FreeBSD.ORG, op-tech@openpackages.org Subject: Re: Managing symlink farms References: <20001124160721.A1777@lizzy.bugworks.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-libh@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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