From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Mar 31 10:46:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.29.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E1EDF14E27 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 10:46:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 29658 invoked by uid 1003); 31 Mar 1999 20:51:48 -0000 Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 20:51:48 +0000 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: nclayton@lehman.com, Satoshi - the Wraith - Asami , ports@FreeBSD.ORG, nik@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNU Stow, and the ports system? Message-ID: <19990331205148.A14649@rucus.ru.ac.za> References: <19990331104809.F14492@lehman.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: ; from The Hermit Hacker on Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 02:09:11PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed 1999-03-31 (14:09), The Hermit Hacker wrote: > 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... Stow doesn't maintain state information between running, and thus doesn't have a "database" - that's one of it's main differences compared to Depot. That and stow is a lot simpler than Depot, which can sometimes be pretty cryptic, and is also much safer (for the reasons you mention above). Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message