[ITP] stow

Schulman.Andrew@epamail.epa.gov Schulman.Andrew@epamail.epa.gov
Mon May 16 15:47:00 GMT 2005


I would like to package and maintain stow for Cygwin.  Stow is an 
installation manager for local software packages.  It installs packages by 
creating sets of symlinks from the installed location (e.g. /usr/local) to 
a stow directory (e.g. /usr/local/stow/emacs) where the real files live. 
This allows you to keep packages separate, while making them appear to be 
installed in the same place.

Stow is available in the current stable, testing, and unstable releases of 
Debian, e.g. http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/stow.

Source homepage:    http://directory.fsf.org/stow.html
Source download:    http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/stow/stow-1.3.3.tar.gz
Language:           Perl
License:            GPL

setup.hint:
sdesc: "Manage local software installations"
ldesc: "Stow manages the installation of local software packages by 
creating sets of symlinks from the installed location (e.g. /usr/local) to 

a stow directory (e.g. /usr/local/stow/emacs) where the real files live. 
This allows you to keep packages separate, while making them appear to be 
installed in the same place."
category: Admin Utils
requires: perl

The Cygwin packages are ready for upload, at the URLs below.  Please 
upload them once they've undergone any necessary review.

Thanks,
Andrew.

http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/stow/setup.hint
http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/stow/stow-1.3.3-1.tar.bz2
http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/stow/stow-1.3.3-1-src.tar.bz2



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