Hello Mike, But stow is not enough in itself (or is there something I missed about stow?). You first have to install the package then you can "stow" it to your public area.
Loïc JAOUEN, OIS Team, http://forecasting.olsen.ch Mike Renfro wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 05:39:52PM +0200, Loic Jaouen wrote: > > > Look at the /usr/local/pkg of your solaris box and tell me if you > > don't see there: tar, openssl, gmake, gcc ... Just something to > > take care of /usr/local/pkg and /usr/dangerous/pkg for generic and > > homegrew packages. > > How about stow? I'm using it for all my local Solaris builds, and the > only package that was not sufficiently stow-aware (that I remember) is > teTeX. teTeX makes considerable effort to keep itself in one directory > anyway, so it's not a big issue. > > Stow is old, but it's Perl, and works fine for me. Documentation even > includes bootstrapping instructions for using stow to manage both > itself and perl. > > Package: stow > Priority: optional > Section: admin > Installed-Size: 141 > Maintainer: Charles Briscoe-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Architecture: all > Version: 1.3.2-11 > Filename: dists/potato/main/binary-all/admin/stow_1.3.2-11.deb > Size: 54486 > MD5sum: 45e1b56c38943439e49e2f2bdbadca39 > Description: Organiser for /usr/local/ hierarchy > GNU Stow helps the system administrator organise files under /usr/local/ > by allowing each piece of software to be installed in its own tree under > /usr/local/stow/, and then using symlinks to create the illusion that > all the software is installed in the same place. > > -- > Mike Renfro / R&D Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, > 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
