Hi all, GNU Stow 2.2.2 is now available for download from
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/stow/ and also from the mirrors[1] as soon as they catch up. Stow is a tool for managing the installation of multiple software packages to a shared run-time directory tree (e.g. /usr/local) via symlinks, whilst keeping the files from each package separate. Whilst it has often been used to manage system-wide software installations, it also provides a clean mechanism for managing software and configuration files in users' home directories[2]. More information is available at the homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/ Below are the headline changes since 2.2.0. (Version 2.2.1 was not uploaded since the automatic checks at pause.perl.org discovered an issue with Stow::Util missing $VERSION.) See the ChangeLog for full details. --------- 8< --------- 8< --------- 8< --------- 8< --------- 8< --------- * Changes in version 2.2.2 ** @VERSION@ substitution was set up for the Stow::Util module. * Changes in version 2.2.1 ** Small improvements to documentation *** The README has been revamped. *** Some index points have been added to the manual. *** Some typos were fixed. *** @VERSION@ substitution was fixed in the stow(8) man page. ** Fix Perl warnings Stow no longer emits "v-string in use/require non-portable" and "Possible precedence issue with control flow operator" warnings with newer Perl versions. See https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36478 and http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-stow/2014-06/msg00000.html for full details. ** Fix "Undefined subroutine &main::error" error See https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=75349 for details. ** Failed system calls now include error description This should make errors easier to understand. ** Default ignore list now ignores top-level README.*, LICENSE.*, and COPYING These files are by definition specific to a given package, so if they exist in the top-level directory, they should not be stowed. ** Correctly handle the stow/target directories as non-canonical paths Fix the case discovered by Hiroyuki Iwatsuki where stowing fails if the stow / target directories are non-canonical paths. For example, on FreeBSD /home is a symlink pointing to 'usr/home', so running with the stow directory as /home/user/local/stow and the target directory as /home/user/local previously resulted in the stow directory path being calculated as ../../../usr/home/user/local/stow relative to the target. See http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.stow.bugs/8820 for details. ** Fix stowing of relative links when --no-folding is used. With a tree like this: . |-- stow | `-- pkg | `-- lib | |-- itk-current -> itk4.0.0 | `-- itk4.0.0 | `-- libitk4.0.0.so `-- target `-- lib |-- itk4.0.0 -> ../../stow/pkg/lib/itk4.0.0 `-- libfoo-1.2.3.so stowing pkg with the --no-folding option resulted in itk-current being "unpacked": . `-- target `-- lib |-- itk-current | `-- libitk4.0.0.so -> ../../../stow/pkg/lib/itk-current/libitk4.0.0.so |-- itk4.0.0 | `-- libitk4.0.0.so -> ../../../stow/pkg/lib/itk4.0.0/libitk4.0.0.so `-- libfoo-1.2.3.so This commit fixes it so that it gets stowed as a symlink: . `-- target `-- lib ... |-- itk-current -> ../../stow/pkg/lib/itk-current ... Thanks to Gabriele Balducci for reporting this problem: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.stow.general/6676 ** Internal code cleanups *** aclocal was updated. *** automake files were removed. *** Trailing whitespace was removed. *** Comments were added. *** Debug messages were improved. --------- 8< --------- 8< --------- 8< --------- 8< --------- 8< --------- Happy hacking, Adam [1] You can see a list of mirrors at <http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html> or use <http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/stow/> which will automatically redirect to a nearby mirror. [2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-stow/2011-12/msg00000.html
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