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Package: stow
Version: 2.2.0-2
Severity: normal
I am an old time user of stow but can't recollect if I'm using it in the
right way anymore.
rrs@learner:/var/tmp$ sudo stow --verbose 3 smplayer-mpv
Possible precedence issue with control flow operator at
/usr/share/perl5/Stow.pm line 1736.
stow dir is /var/tmp
stow dir path relative to target /var is tmp
cwd now /var
cwd restored to /var/tmp
cwd now /var
Planning stow of package smplayer-mpv...
Stowing contents of tmp/smplayer-mpv (cwd=/var)
Stowing tmp/smplayer-mpv/usr
--- Skipping usr as it already points to tmp/smplayer-mpv/usr
Planning stow of package smplayer-mpv... done
cwd restored to /var/tmp
Processing tasks...
11:48 ♒♒♒ ☺
rrs@learner:/var/tmp$
IIRC, stow followed by the top-level directory, used to populate the
same into /usr/local with symlinks. If so, right now stow isn't doing
the same.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages stow depends on:
ii dpkg 1.17.21
ii install-info 5.2.0.dfsg.1-5
ii perl 5.20.1-2
stow recommends no packages.
Versions of packages stow suggests:
ii doc-base 0.10.6
-- no debconf information
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On 11/26/2014 01:27 AM, Adam Spiers wrote:
> Only if you are in a subdirectory of /usr/local (e.g. /usr/local/stow)
> when you run it. Please read the friendly manual.
Thanks. :-)
It was more to do with the folder structure.
rrs@learner:/usr/local/stow$ stow --verbose 3 smplayer-mpv
Possible precedence issue with control flow operator at
/usr/share/perl5/Stow.pm line 1736.
stow dir is /usr/local/stow
stow dir path relative to target /usr/local is stow
cwd now /usr/local
cwd restored to /usr/local/stow
cwd now /usr/local
Planning stow of package smplayer-mpv...
Stowing contents of stow/smplayer-mpv (cwd=/usr/local)
Stowing stow/smplayer-mpv/usr
--- Skipping usr as it already points to stow/smplayer-mpv/usr
Planning stow of package smplayer-mpv... done
cwd restored to /usr/local/stow
Processing tasks...
Since everything was inside usr/, all got skipped.
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