On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 10:46:16AM +0100, Carsten Strotmann wrote: > Hello Florian, > > thanks for pointing out "stow". I was not aware of "stow" (there are > many hidden gems in the open source world). > > However after having read the documentation, it seems that "stow" is not > a full replacement for what we do. It seems to install packages (from > source) into its own separate directory (same as we do) and then > symlinking it into the usual directories (like /usr/local/sbin/unbound). > It does no seem to support multiple versions of the same software > installed at the same time, and not switching between versions. "stow" > is also designed to work with source packages, while we work with RPM, > DEB and Solaris PKG for easy binary installations. With "stow" > symlinking into the usual directories, there is also the danger of an OS > update or a manual compilation run to overwrite the links created by > "stow" (or even worse, following the symlinks and alter the original > binaries).
Stow is simply a simlink management script - It is not bound to /usr/local but rather manages a directory which is one level up to the "stow" dir ... And it can manage multiple versions easily as one can remove the links and restow a different version: r...@p:/usr/local/stow# mkdir -p version-1/sbin r...@p:/usr/local/stow# echo version-1 >version-1/sbin/daemon r...@p:/usr/local/stow# mkdir -p version-2/sbin r...@p:/usr/local/stow# echo version-2 >version-2/sbin/daemon r...@p:/usr/local/stow# stow version-1 r...@p:/usr/local/stow# ls -la ../sbin/daemon lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 29 Nov 21 14:37 ../sbin/daemon -> ../stow/version-1/sbin/daemon r...@p:/usr/local/stow# stow -D version-1 r...@p:/usr/local/stow# stow version-2 r...@p:/usr/local/stow# ls -la ../sbin/daemon lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 29 Nov 21 14:38 ../sbin/daemon -> ../stow/version-2/sbin/daemon So simply build you project and install it with prefix=/usr/local/stow/project-version and then stow it ... stow is very good in eliminating whole subdir trees by symlinking directories as long as they are unique to a specific project stowed in that basedir. Its very generic and i also use it for managing different versions of self compiled binarys in my homedir ... Flo -- Florian Lohoff [email protected] Professionell gesehen bin ich zu haben ....
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