From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Mar 31 10:56:44 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 858C0155EB for ; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 10:56:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 47401 invoked by uid 1003); 31 Mar 1999 21:02:03 -0000 Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 21:02:03 +0000 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: nclayton@lehman.com Cc: Satoshi - the Wraith - Asami , ports@FreeBSD.ORG, nik@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNU Stow, and the ports system? Message-ID: <19990331210203.B14649@rucus.ru.ac.za> References: <19990330085646.T14492@lehman.com> <19990330113617.A22325@rucus.ru.ac.za> <199903302217.OAA41059@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <19990331104809.F14492@lehman.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <19990331104809.F14492@lehman.com>; from nclayton@lehman.com on Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 10:48:09AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed 1999-03-31 (10:48), nclayton@lehman.com wrote: > > 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. This is one of the weirder things I've seen it do - when the directory to be stowed to is itself a symlink. It also has some weird incongruencies mentioned in the manual. > I'll get some more time next week. In the mean time I note that it's > written in Perl 4. I could well be better off dusting down some of > my own scripts (Perl 5) and properly documenting them instead. It's pretty old, and that's one of the reasons I offered to write something like it. 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