From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2005 invoked from network); 28 Oct 1999 02:23:12 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 28 Oct 1999 02:23:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 10871 invoked by alias); 28 Oct 1999 02:23:07 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 8463 Received: (qmail 10862 invoked from network); 28 Oct 1999 02:22:58 -0000 From: "Juergen A. Erhard" To: schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com CC: schizo@debian.org, zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk In-reply-to: <991024175838.ZM6757@candle.brasslantern.com> (schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com) Subject: Re: PATCH: 3.1.6 install without rebuild (Re: 3.0 DESTDIR) References: <991019052248.ZM4198@candle.brasslantern.com> <991019061342.ZM4317@candle.brasslantern.com> <19991023204554.A31639@dman.com> <991024015558.ZM1246@candle.brasslantern.com> <19991024010545.A1872@dman.com> <991024062032.ZM1682@candle.brasslantern.com> <19991024103020.A5395@dman.com> <991024175838.ZM6757@candle.brasslantern.com> User-Agent: SEMI/1.8.6 (Fukuoka) FLIM/1.9.2 (Shin-Tanabe) Emacs/20.2 MULE/3.0 (MOMIJINOGA) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.8.6 - "Fukuoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: GNU Emacs 20.2.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux potato X-Kernel: Linux 2.2.12 X-Original-Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 03:58:35 +0200 X-Personality: INFP X-Location: Karlsruhe, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe, Earth X-Confirmation: read Message-ID: <28101999.1@sanctum.jae> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 03:58:36 +0200 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >>>>> "Bart" =3D=3D Bart Schaefer writes= : [SNIP] A few minor (and probably totally unimportant ;-) corrections: Bart> There's a GNU package called "stow" (based on something Bart> called "depot" that originated at CMU). =46rom stow.texi: Stow was inspired by Carnegie Mellon's Depot program, [...] It is definitely not based on it (in the narrower sense). Bart> It's a package-installation utility designed for use in Bart> shared-filesystem environments. Also according to stow.texi, it's for keeping files from different packages apart, nothing more, nothing less. So, when you have "a2p.1" in "/usr/local/man/man1", you can easily find out which package this file is from. Of course you can *use* it for what you describe ;-) (And maybe that was depot's intended use). [SNIP] Bye, J PS: It's good to see support for stow... I use it for everything under /usr/local. Aaaand building Debian (and I guess RH) packages poses some of the same problems: you need to `install' into a different place than the one the package later has to run in. - -- = J=FCrgen A. Erhard eMail: jae@ilk.de phone: (GERMANY) 0721 27326 MARS: http://members.tripod.com/~Juergen_Erhard/mars_index.html GNUstep - Free OPENSTEP (http://www.gnustep.org) "No matter how cynical I get, I can't keep up." -- Bruce Schneier -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjgXrckACgkQN0B+CS56qs1ijQCfWK6UjW7RC6nswVX2ONmKKz9f 9KMAn2+nDEsej0AohXyr6RigDWsOGlvP =3DGi++ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----