BSD Ports

sysutils/stow 2.4.1 DragonFly

GNU version of Carnegie Mellon's "Depot" program

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
GPLv2
Categories
sysutils
Package size
384.4 KiB, 1022.8 KiB installed

Description

This is GNU Stow, a program for managing the installation of software packages, keeping them separate (/usr/local/stow/emacs vs. /usr/local/stow/perl, for example) while making them appear to be installed in the same place (/usr/local).

Stow was inspired by Carnegie Mellon's "Depot" program, but is substantially simpler. Whereas Depot requires database files to keep things in sync, Stow stores no extra state between runs, so there's no danger (as there is in Depot) of mangling directories when file hierarchies don't match the database. Also unlike Depot, Stow will never delete any files, directories, or links that appear in a Stow directory (e.g., /usr/local/stow/emacs), so it's always possible to rebuild the target tree (e.g., /usr/local).

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
DragonFlysysutils/stow2.4.1
FreeBSDsysutils/stow2.4.1
OpenBSDsysutils/stow2.4.1
NetBSDsysutils/stow2.4.1

Install

Binary package:

pkg install stow

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/sysutils/stow && make install clean

Dependencies

Run dependencies 3
Required by 1