Re: Not Owned Relative Symlink

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 07:31:44PM -0400, Trans wrote:
> In my target directory I have created a simple relative link:
> 
>     lib
>     lib64 -> lib

Why did you do that?

> When I try to stow software that has a file under `lib64/` stow gives me
> the error "existing target is not owned by stow: lib64". But stow owns
> `lib` so why won't it work? And how can I get around this?

You are trying to do two things which conflict with each other.
Either you keep lib64 as a symlink, or you treat it as a normal
directory whose contents stow can sanely manage.  You can't do both.