I looked at Stow about the time I found Pkglink. Both seemed to have their
plusses and minuses. I shied away from Stow because of what it mentioned
in its documentation about conflicts
(http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/manual.html#SEC13) and that, ultimately,
the feature of splitting seemed to have less value once you achieved a
significant number of installed packages. Pkglink included a pkgindex
script which made it easier to create an HTML page advertising what packages
have been installed. On the other hand, pkglink, at the time, was just a
script (I've since autoconf/automake'd it) and it currently doesn't clean up
the target directory of empty directories (its probably a simple
enhancement).
I could send you the PKGLINK package (its not very big) and you could
compare yourself...
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Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 10:45 AM
To: Masterson, David
Cc: 'Jean-Marc Lasgouttes'; Tom Tromey; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Changing the name of the PACKAGE at configure time
%% "Masterson, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
md> If you want, I have a Perl tool that I picked up and enhanced
md> called PKGLINK that could help with this. Basically, with
md> pkglink, you install all packages in there own prefix directory
md> and then use pkglink to symbolically link the default version you
md> want to publish into /usr/local (or someplace similar). The users
md> only see /usr/local in their PATH(s), but you (the sysadmin) can
md> control which version is in /usr/local and easily uninstall
md> packages (simply un-pkglink and remove the package's prefix
md> directory).
There's already a GNU tool called "stow" which does much the same thing,
and does handy stuff like automatically making sure you're using the
fewest number of symlinks, etc. (e.g., if you have only one version of
the tool then stow just puts one symlink to the top of its data
directory; if you install a second one it automatically explodes that
link into multiple links for the multiple data directories).
Stow is cool. We had a discussion about possible enhancements a few
months ago, but no real consensus on specific ways to handle the various
problems emerged. Fresh insight is always welcome :).
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