From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Mar 31 10: 9:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat192.236.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.192.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFD6214BE1; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 10:09:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA80233; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 14:09:11 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 14:09:11 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: nclayton@lehman.com Cc: Satoshi - the Wraith - Asami , nbm@mithrandr.moria.org, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, nik@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNU Stow, and the ports system? In-Reply-To: <19990331104809.F14492@lehman.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 31 Mar 1999 nclayton@lehman.com wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 02:17:47PM -0800, Satoshi - the Wraith - Asami wrote: > > * From: Neil Blakey-Milner > > * Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, nik@FreeBSD.ORG > > * > > * On Tue 1999-03-30 (08:56), nclayton@lehman.com wrote: > > * > Now, obviously I could just do this myself (and probably will when my > > * > 3.1 box finishes rebuilding itself). But would anyone be interested in > > * > having this functionality folded back into the ports system as an option? > > > > As an option? Heck, I'd like to see it as the default. :) > > OK. I tried playing with it briefly last night, but ran in to all sorts > of problems (some of which are doubtless to do with the fact that my box > is in a state of disarray at the moment). In particular it seems to > violently object to the fact that /usr/local/ on my system is a symlink > to /local/1/usr.local. Even more fun is when you create a file in /usr/local that isn't "registered" in the 'stow database'...next time you run stow, it will happily remove it for you :) At least, with the system we were using, 'stow' (in our case, called 'depot') *owns* /usr/local ... don't put anything in there that it doesn't know about or it will trash it... Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message