Re: Symlinks on the stow directory

James Jong <[email protected]> Sun, 21 Apr 2013 19:55:29 -0400
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Thank you Adam, It seems to be working fine so far.

James


On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Adam Spiers <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 04:23:40PM -0400, James Jong wrote:
> > Say I have my package directories in different locations. Can I create
> > symlinks in my stow directory to these  package directories and use stow
> as
> > if they lived within the stow directory?
> >
> > e.g. say I have previously built my package foo-bar under
> > /path-to-foo-bar-built
> >
> > and that I am using the following as my stow directory
> > /path/to/stow_dir
> >
> > and the following as my target directory for all my packages:
> > ~/local/stow
> >
> > Can I create a sym link:
> > from /path/to/stow_dir/foo-bar
> > to: /path-to-foo-bar-built
> >
> > and use STOW as usual?
>
> My brain is a bit too befuddled and jetlagged right now to know either
> way, so I'd say just try it and see :-)
>
>

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<div dir=3D"ltr">Thank you Adam, It seems to be working fine so far.<div><b=
r></div><div style>James</div></div><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><br><div=
 class=3D"gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Adam Spiers <span d=
ir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank">sto=
[email protected]</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p=
x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class=3D"HOEnZb"><div class=3D"h5">On S=
un, Apr 21, 2013 at 04:23:40PM -0400, James Jong wrote:<br>
&gt; Say I have my package directories in different locations. Can I create=
<br>
&gt; symlinks in my stow directory to these =A0package directories and use =
stow as<br>
&gt; if they lived within the stow directory?<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; e.g. say I have previously built my package foo-bar under<br>
&gt; /path-to-foo-bar-built<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; and that I am using the following as my stow directory<br>
&gt; /path/to/stow_dir<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; and the following as my target directory for all my packages:<br>
&gt; ~/local/stow<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Can I create a sym link:<br>
&gt; from /path/to/stow_dir/foo-bar<br>
&gt; to: /path-to-foo-bar-built<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; and use STOW as usual?<br>
<br>
</div></div>My brain is a bit too befuddled and jetlagged right now to know=
 either<br>
way, so I&#39;d say just try it and see :-)<br>
<br>
</blockquote></div><br></div>

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