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Adam Spiers
72ef83cebd Fix old descriptions of Stow (#22)
De-emphasise the package management aspects, since these days
almost everyone prefers to use modern package managers such as
rpm / dpkg / Nix for (system-wide) package management.

Also include more popular modern use cases for Stow such as management
of dotfiles and software compiled in the user's $HOME directory.

Fixes #22: https://github.com/aspiers/stow/issues/22
2019-06-25 16:52:33 +01:00
Adam Spiers
dd42b09a5b avoid "regex" abbreviation for consistency 2018-02-11 17:55:40 +00:00
Adam Spiers
c84de4eb14 fix erroneous glob examples in --ignore documentation
Many thanks to Daniel Shahaf for noticing this.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-stow/2017-07/msg00000.html
2018-02-11 17:55:31 +00:00
Adam Spiers
e7e6c7fbde update the introductory text to clarify Stow's common usage
Thanks to Jean Louis for some suggestions on this.
2018-02-11 11:47:39 +00:00
Adam Spiers
ea11f266a5 fix typo in "Deleting Packages" chapter
Thanks to Hongyi Zhao for spotting this error and reporting it.
2017-03-04 14:29:06 +00:00
Adam Spiers
b160a1c807 clarify that ~/.stowrc args don't get processed by a shell
Address confusion reported here:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-stow/2016-08/msg00000.html
2016-12-18 23:17:19 +00:00
Adam Spiers
5a8d275c47 replace a "you" typo with better text
The contents are prepended to the arguments; they still come after the
stow executable.
2016-12-18 23:14:39 +00:00
Adam Spiers
fd10706ce3 HOWTO-RELEASE: use Docker to test before releasing
Charles LeDoux did some awesome work providing this Docker environment
which can test across multiple Perl versions using perlbrew, so it
would be crazy not to use it.
2016-11-20 22:57:39 +00:00
Adam Spiers
98a8f7e3e7 use PAUSE upload for final validation step of release 2016-11-20 22:50:22 +00:00
Adam Spiers
a9f79c6a5b make sure release tags are also pushed to GitHub 2016-11-20 22:50:22 +00:00
Adam Spiers
17bbfb05c6 further refine the release process
Let's try a new approach where we increment the version number
immediately after publishing a release, not just before.

This will mean that anyone who builds from git gets a version of Stow
which is higher than the release which was just cut, and this could
provide valuable debugging hints in case a bug report does not clearly
state whether the problem arose with the latest release or with a build
from git.
2016-11-20 22:50:22 +00:00
Adam Spiers
08bff6df00 whitespace cleanups 2016-11-20 22:20:46 +00:00
Adam Spiers
0bc06e58e1 HOWTO-RELEASE: add a reminder to update THANKS
Make sure the maintainer always gives credit to contributors :-)
2016-11-20 22:07:47 +00:00
Adam Spiers
d82b6aa1a8 HOWTO-RELEASE: remove body indent 2015-11-09 11:05:20 +00:00
Adam Spiers
ee118fb616 HOWTO-RELEASE: add link to official GNU maintainers guide 2015-11-09 11:05:14 +00:00
Adam Spiers
2119e75d2b HOWTO-RELEASE: encourage use of SemVer 2015-11-09 10:13:34 +00:00
Adam Spiers
0a54a6bbab HOWTO-RELEASE: encourage GPG-signing of release tags 2015-11-09 10:11:59 +00:00
Adam Spiers
7faa1d86dc HOWTO-RELEASE: use gnulib for gendocs instead of texinfo
These days it seems that gendocs can be done entirely from
the templates in gnulib, rather than requiring the texinfo
repository.
2015-11-09 10:10:36 +00:00
Adam Spiers
f1b67d2432 HOWTO-RELEASE: include automake --add-missing
This is necessary since automake files were removed from the repository
recently.
2015-11-09 09:28:51 +00:00
Adam Spiers
29a8b5d4e5 Add more index entries to the manual. 2015-11-09 09:03:49 +00:00
Adam Spiers
e255b27976 Fix a typo in the docs. 2015-11-09 09:03:42 +00:00
Adam Spiers
db784f0a5f Fix typo in manual. 2012-02-19 01:42:10 +00:00
Adam Spiers
037ce9ee8a Add a few more items to index. 2012-02-19 01:42:04 +00:00
Adam Spiers
50d28a4306 Add boilerplate commit message for web docs update. 2012-02-18 20:43:20 +00:00
Adam Spiers
ed12c787df Add --no-folding option. 2012-02-18 20:33:34 +00:00
Adam Spiers
17d3586e84 Remove -a option for safety reasons (but keep --adopt). 2012-02-18 20:33:34 +00:00
Adam Spiers
1af824908d Last known bug was fixed a long time ago :-) 2012-02-18 20:33:34 +00:00
Adam Spiers
52d7e2f384 Update structure of manual to match recommended texinfo structure.
TOC now appears after title page.
Copying information is no longer duplicated.
2012-02-18 20:33:34 +00:00
Adam Spiers
934ff5e273 Fix various formatting issues in the manual. 2012-02-18 20:20:15 +00:00
Adam Spiers
2ae90481cb Add some more index entries to the manual. 2012-02-18 20:20:13 +00:00
Adam Spiers
c6a45b7c81 Add some @sections to the manual to break larger nodes up. 2012-02-18 20:19:45 +00:00
Adam Spiers
149034de9f Use @command / @samp / @env / @var in the manual where appropriate, rather than @code. 2012-02-18 20:19:44 +00:00
Adam Spiers
2da2f44a20 Fix formatting of regexp values in the manual. 2012-02-18 20:19:44 +00:00
Adam Spiers
92eee74bb3 perl Build.PL needs a prefix during testing 2012-01-09 22:10:48 +00:00
Adam Spiers
7e44666640 Add --adopt / -a option. 2012-01-09 21:29:34 +00:00
Adam Spiers
782836bad7 Improve the footnote which defines 'subpath'. 2011-12-21 11:45:59 +00:00
Adam Spiers
7c90000393 Add another ignore example to the manual and test suite. 2011-12-21 11:45:43 +00:00
Adam Spiers
1f35c6c94f Automate check for 'use lib' line in bin/stow. 2011-12-11 13:16:03 +00:00
Adam Spiers
195c80e9d7 Significantly improve the handling of --with-pmdir. 2011-12-07 20:48:50 +00:00
Adam Spiers
e7e0646db0 Ensure the ChangeLog is up-to-date when making a new distribution.
Thanks to Stefano Lattarini for this suggestion.
2011-12-07 01:23:41 +00:00
Adam Spiers
7b62cbf09a Add a workaround for not being able to ensure that git commit triggers
ChangeLog update.
2011-12-06 17:31:10 +00:00
Adam Spiers
9dbe5e4c92 Fix release instructions regarding CPAN distribution. 2011-12-06 17:23:09 +00:00
Adam Spiers
419e31b4c6 Change @dircategory to `System administration' as suggested by Karl Berry. 2011-12-04 14:57:34 +00:00
Adam Spiers
f032e30cc8 Add git push and update of online documentation to HOWTO-RELEASE. 2011-12-03 18:13:09 +00:00
Adam Spiers
f5d0bd178d Release announcements should go to stow-devel too. 2011-12-03 17:51:48 +00:00
Adam Spiers
f649cd2766 Fix error in gnupload command-line. 2011-12-03 17:51:44 +00:00
Adam Spiers
519566f3f4 Add a missing hyperlink to the Stow homepage. 2011-12-03 16:40:20 +00:00
Adam Spiers
e046048a1c Update reference to maintainer. 2011-12-03 02:07:19 +00:00
Adam Spiers
08e15e3d43 Add HOWTO-RELEASE 2011-11-26 18:15:26 +00:00
Adam Spiers
d5aa061abe Fix documentation regarding splitting of symlinks across multiple stow directories. 2011-11-26 16:34:57 +00:00