Subject: Re: pkg_stow
To: Johnny C. Lam <jlam@pkgsrc.org>
From: Malcolm Herbert <mjch@mjch.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 03/08/2007 09:31:31
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 04:52:36PM -0500, Johnny C. Lam wrote:
|I've attached a script called "pkg_stow" that does roughly what GNU stow
|does, but implemented using system tools. Probably only works right now
|on NetBSD because I'm using the "readlink" command to compute the target
|of a symlink. There's probably a way to use "ls" to approximate it, but
|that's not too important to me right now. I'm not looking for
|feedback... just thought I'd share something I was working on with
|others that might see a use for it.
I'm curious: what does this do that the ordinary stow does not?
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