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.TH STOW 8 "28 March 1998" |
.TH STOW 8 "24 January 2002" |
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.SH NAME |
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stow \- software package installation manager |
stow \- software package installation manager |
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.SH SYNOPSIS |
.SH SYNOPSIS |
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Managing the installation of software packages'' |
Managing the installation of software packages'' |
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by Bob Glickstein, Zanshin Software, Inc. |
by Bob Glickstein, Zanshin Software, Inc. |
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.SH BUGS |
.SH BUGS |
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Please report bugs in Stow using the Debian bug tracking system. |
Please report bugs in Stow to <bug-stow@gnu.org>. |
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Currently known bugs include: |
Currently known bugs include: |
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The empty-directory problem. If package FOO includes an empty |
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directory--say, FOO/BAR--then: |
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if no other package has a BAR subdirectory, everything's fine. |
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if another stowed package, QUUX, has a BAR subdirectory, then |
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when stowing, TARGETDIR/BAR will be ``split open'' and the |
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contents of QUUX/BAR will be individually stowed. So far, so |
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good. But when unstowing QUUX, TARGETDIR/BAR will be |
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removed, even though FOO/BAR needs it to remain. A |
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workaround for this problem is to create a file in FOO/BAR as |
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a placeholder. If you name that file |
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.IR .placeholder , |
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it will |
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be easy to find and remove such files when this bug is fixed. |
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When using multiple stow directories (see ``Multiple stow |
When using multiple stow directories (see ``Multiple stow |
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directories'' in the info manual), Stow fails to ``split open'' tree-folding symlinks |
directories'' in the info manual), Stow fails to ``split open'' tree-folding symlinks |
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(see ``Installing packages'' in the info manual) that point into a stow directory |
(see ``Installing packages'' in the info manual) that point into a stow directory |
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Software and documentation Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 by |
Software and documentation Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 by |
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Bob Glickstein <bobg+stow@zanshin.com>. |
Bob Glickstein <bobg+stow@zanshin.com>. |
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Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002 Guillaume Morin |
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Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this |
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this |
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manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are |
manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are |