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bug #64372: Support the case where `/usr/local/share/man` is a symlink to `/usr/local/man`

Submitter:  Sergio Callegari <callegar>
Submitted:  Sun 02 Jul 2023 07:08:05 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
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Sun 02 Jul 2023 07:08:05 AM UTC, original submission:  

Almost always `/usr/local/share/man` and `/usr/local/man` are intended as synonymous.

Most linux distros and BSDs enforce this by setting up the initial filesystem so that `/usr/local/man` is a symlink to `/usr/local/share/man`.

This generally works well with stow. You need package `foo` that has an install script, you set the PREFIX to `/usr/local/stow/foo`, you install and then you stow. Everything works because by changing the PREFIX the man pages will go in `/usr/local/stow/foo/share/man` and when you stow the appropriate symlinks will be created from `/usr/local/share/man`.

However, some linux distros (and notably arch and derivatives) do thing the other way round and pretend that `/usr/local/share/man` should be a symlink to `/usr/local/man`.

This makes stow complain. Back to the previous example, when you have the foo man pages in `/usr/local/stow/foo/share/man` and you try to stow `foo`, stow will error out because `/usr/local/share/man` exists as a file.

Would be great if stow could be made aware of the fact that `/usr/local/share/man` and `/usr/local/man` can often be synonymous by means of symlinks.

 Sergio Callegari <callegar>

 

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