Re: Symlinks on the stow directory
James Jong <[email protected]> Sun, 21 Apr 2013 19:55:29 -0400
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--e89a8f3ba45712b37a04dae7b1d4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 :-) > > --e89a8f3ba45712b37a04dae7b1d4 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <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"><<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank">sto= [email protected]</a>></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> > Say I have my package directories in different locations. Can I create= <br> > symlinks in my stow directory to these =A0package directories and use = stow as<br> > if they lived within the stow directory?<br> ><br> > e.g. say I have previously built my package foo-bar under<br> > /path-to-foo-bar-built<br> ><br> > and that I am using the following as my stow directory<br> > /path/to/stow_dir<br> ><br> > and the following as my target directory for all my packages:<br> > ~/local/stow<br> ><br> > Can I create a sym link:<br> > from /path/to/stow_dir/foo-bar<br> > to: /path-to-foo-bar-built<br> ><br> > 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'd say just try it and see :-)<br> <br> </blockquote></div><br></div> --e89a8f3ba45712b37a04dae7b1d4--