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local/bin/chkstow
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@ -1,4 +1,19 @@
#!/usr/bin/perl
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
#
# This file is part of GNU Stow.
#
# GNU Stow is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
# under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# GNU Stow is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
# General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
use strict;
use warnings;
@ -8,7 +23,7 @@ require 5.006_001;
use File::Find;
use Getopt::Long;
my $DEFAULT_TARGET = '/usr/local/';
my $DEFAULT_TARGET = $ENV{STOW_DIR} || '/usr/local/';
our $Wanted = \&bad_links;
our %Package = ();
@ -93,7 +108,7 @@ sub aliens {
!-l && !-d && print "Unstowed file: $File::Find::name\n";
}
# just list the packages in the the target directory
# just list the packages in the target directory
# FIXME: what if the stow dir is not called 'stow'?
sub list {
if (-l) {

323
local/bin/stow
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@ -1,27 +1,29 @@
#!/usr/bin/perl
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
# GNU Stow - manage the installation of multiple software packages
# GNU Stow - manage farms of symbolic links
# Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 by Bob Glickstein
# Copyright (C) 2000, 2001 Guillaume Morin
# Copyright (C) 2007 Kahlil Hodgson
# Copyright (C) 2011 Adam Spiers
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# This file is part of GNU Stow.
#
# GNU Stow is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
# under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# GNU Stow is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
# General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
# along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
=head1 NAME
stow - software package installation manager
stow - manage farms of symbolic links
=head1 SYNOPSIS
@ -29,33 +31,34 @@ stow [ options ] package ...
=head1 DESCRIPTION
This manual page describes GNU Stow 2.2.2, a program for managing
the installation of software packages. This is not the definitive
documentation for stow; for that, see the info manual.
This manual page describes GNU Stow 2.3.2-fixbug56727. This is not the
definitive documentation for Stow; for that, see the accompanying info
manual, e.g. by typing C<info stow>.
Stow is a tool for managing the installation of multiple software
packages in the same run-time directory tree. One historical
difficulty of this task has been the need to administer, upgrade,
install, and remove files in independent packages without confusing
them with other files sharing the same filesystem space. For instance,
it is common to install Perl and Emacs in F</usr/local>. When one
does so, one winds up (as of Perl 4.036 and Emacs 19.22) with the
following files in F</usr/local/man/man1>: F<a2p.1>; F<ctags.1>;
F<emacs.1>; F<etags.1>; F<h2ph.1>; F<perl.1>; and F<s2p.1>. Now
suppose it's time to uninstall Perl. Which man pages get removed?
Obviously F<perl.1> is one of them, but it should not be the
administrator's responsibility to memorize the ownership of individual
files by separate packages.
Stow is a symlink farm manager which takes distinct sets of software
and/or data located in separate directories on the filesystem, and
makes them all appear to be installed in a single directory tree.
The approach used by Stow is to install each package into its own
tree, then use symbolic links to make it appear as though the files
are installed in the common tree. Administration can be performed in
the package's private tree in isolation from clutter from other
packages. Stow can then be used to update the symbolic links. The
structure of each private tree should reflect the desired structure in
the common tree; i.e. (in the typical case) there should be a F<bin>
directory containing executables, a F<man/man1> directory containing
section 1 man pages, and so on.
Originally Stow was born to address the need to administer, upgrade,
install, and remove files in independent software packages without
confusing them with other files sharing the same file system space.
For instance, many years ago it used to be common to compile programs
such as Perl and Emacs from source. By using Stow, F</usr/local/bin>
could contain symlinks to files within F</usr/local/stow/emacs/bin>,
F</usr/local/stow/perl/bin> etc., and likewise recursively for any
other subdirectories such as F<.../share>, F<.../man>, and so on.
While this is useful for keeping track of system-wide and per-user
installations of software built from source, in more recent times
software packages are often managed by more sophisticated package
management software such as rpm, dpkg, and Nix / GNU Guix, or
language-native package managers such as Ruby's gem, Python's pip,
Javascript's npm, and so on.
However Stow is still used not only for software package management,
but also for other purposes, such as facilitating a more controlled
approach to management of configuration files in the user's home
directory, especially when coupled with version control systems.
Stow was inspired by Carnegie Mellon's Depot program, but is
substantially simpler and safer. Whereas Depot required database files
@ -66,6 +69,9 @@ will never delete any files, directories, or links that appear in a
Stow directory (e.g., F</usr/local/stow/emacs>), so it's always
possible to rebuild the target tree (e.g., F</usr/local>).
Stow is implemented as a combination of a Perl script providing a CLI
interface, and a backend Perl module which does most of the work.
=head1 TERMINOLOGY
A "package" is a related collection of files and directories that
@ -129,6 +135,8 @@ C<-D>).
=item --no
=item --simulate
Do not perform any operations that modify the filesystem; merely show
what would happen.
@ -152,7 +160,7 @@ directory.
=item --verbose[=N]
Send verbose output to standard error describing what Stow is
doing. Verbosity levels are 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4; 0 is the default.
doing. Verbosity levels are from 0 to 5; 0 is the default.
Using C<-v> or C<--verbose> increases the verbosity by one; using
`--verbose=N' sets it to N.
@ -214,6 +222,22 @@ stowed to another package.
Force stowing files beginning with this Perl regex if the file is
already stowed to another package.
=item --dotfiles
Enable special handling for "dotfiles" (files or folders whose name
begins with a period) in the package directory. If this option is
enabled, Stow will add a preprocessing step for each file or folder
whose name begins with "dot-", and replace the "dot-" prefix in the
name by a period (.). This is useful when Stow is used to manage
collections of dotfiles, to avoid having a package directory full of
hidden files.
For example, suppose we have a package containing two files,
F<stow/dot-bashrc> and F<stow/dot-emacs.d/init.el>. With this option,
Stow will create symlinks from F<.bashrc> to F<stow/dot-bashrc> and
from F<.emacs.d/init.el> to F<stow/dot-emacs.d/init.el>. Any other
files, whose name does not begin with "dot-", will be processed as usual.
=item -V
=item --version
@ -323,6 +347,28 @@ Stow will re-fold the tree by removing the symlinks to the surviving
package, removing the directory, then linking the directory back to
the surviving package.
=head1 RESOURCE FILES
F<Stow> searches for default command line options at F<.stowrc> (current
directory) and F<~/.stowrc> (home directory) in that order. If both
locations are present, the files are effectively appended together.
The effect of options in the resource file is similar to simply prepending
the options to the command line. For options that provide a single value,
such as F<--target> or F<--dir>, the command line option will overwrite any
options in the resource file. For options that can be given more than once,
F<--ignore> for example, command line options and resource options are
appended together.
Environment variables and the tilde character (F<~>) will be expanded for
options that take a file path.
The options F<-D>, F<-R>, F<-S>, and any packages listed in the resource
file are ignored.
See the info manual for more information on how stow handles resource
file.
=head1 SEE ALSO
The full documentation for F<stow> is maintained as a Texinfo manual.
@ -412,11 +458,10 @@ use warnings;
require 5.006_001;
use POSIX qw(getcwd);
use Getopt::Long;
use Getopt::Long qw(GetOptionsFromArray);
use Scalar::Util qw(reftype);
use Cwd qw(abs_path);
use File::Basename qw(dirname);
use lib dirname(dirname(abs_path($0))) . '/share/perl';
use FindBin; use lib "$FindBin::Bin/../lib/perl";
use Stow;
use Stow::Util qw(parent error);
@ -463,27 +508,75 @@ sub main {
#===== SUBROUTINE ===========================================================
# Name : process_options()
# Purpose : parse command line options
# Purpose : Parse and process command line and .stowrc file options
# Parameters: none
# Returns : (\%options, \@pkgs_to_unstow, \@pkgs_to_stow)
# Throws : a fatal error if a bad command line option is given
# Throws : a fatal error if a bad option is given
# Comments : checks @ARGV for valid package names
#============================================================================
sub process_options {
# Get cli options.
my ($cli_options,
$pkgs_to_unstow,
$pkgs_to_stow) = parse_options(@ARGV);
# Get the .stowrc options.
# Note that rc_pkgs_to_unstow and rc_pkgs_to_stow are ignored.
my ($rc_options,
$rc_pkgs_to_unstow,
$rc_pkgs_to_stow) = get_config_file_options();
# Merge .stowrc and command line options.
# Preference is given to cli options.
my %options = %$rc_options;
foreach my $option (keys %$cli_options) {
my $rc_value = $rc_options->{$option};
my $cli_value = $cli_options->{$option};
my $type = reftype($cli_value);
if (defined $type && $type eq 'ARRAY' && defined $rc_value) {
# rc options come first in merged arrays.
$options{$option} = [@{$rc_value}, @{$cli_value}];
} else {
# cli options overwrite conflicting rc options.
$options{$option} = $cli_value;
}
}
# Run checks on the merged options.
sanitize_path_options(\%options);
check_packages($pkgs_to_unstow, $pkgs_to_stow);
# Return merged and processed options.
return (\%options, $pkgs_to_unstow, $pkgs_to_stow);
}
#===== SUBROUTINE ===========================================================
# Name : parse_options()
# Purpose : parse command line options
# Parameters: @arg_array => array of options to parse
# Example: parse_options(@ARGV)
# Returns : (\%options, \@pkgs_to_unstow, \@pkgs_to_stow)
# Throws : a fatal error if a bad command line option is given
# Comments : Used for parsing both command line options and rc file. Used
# for parsing only. Sanity checks and post-processing belong in
# process_options().
#============================================================================
sub parse_options {
my %options = ();
my @pkgs_to_unstow = ();
my @pkgs_to_stow = ();
my $action = 'stow';
unshift @ARGV, get_config_file_options();
#$,="\n"; print @ARGV,"\n"; # for debugging rc file
#$,="\n"; print @_,"\n"; # for debugging rc file
Getopt::Long::config('no_ignore_case', 'bundling', 'permute');
GetOptions(
GetOptionsFromArray(
\@_,
\%options,
'verbose|v:+', 'help|h', 'simulate|n|no',
'version|V', 'compat|p', 'dir|d=s', 'target|t=s',
'adopt', 'no-folding',
'adopt', 'no-folding', 'dotfiles',
# clean and pre-compile any regex's at parse time
'ignore=s' =>
@ -525,31 +618,27 @@ sub process_options {
push @pkgs_to_stow, $_[0];
}
},
) or usage();
) or usage('');
usage() if $options{help};
version() if $options{version};
sanitize_path_options(\%options);
check_packages(\@pkgs_to_unstow, \@pkgs_to_stow);
return (\%options, \@pkgs_to_unstow, \@pkgs_to_stow);
}
sub sanitize_path_options {
my ($options) = @_;
if (exists $options->{dir}) {
$options->{dir} =~ s/\A +//;
$options->{dir} =~ s/ +\z//;
}
else {
$options->{dir} = exists $ENV{STOW_DIR} ? $ENV{STOW_DIR} : getcwd();
unless (exists $options->{dir}) {
$options->{dir} = length $ENV{STOW_DIR} ? $ENV{STOW_DIR} : getcwd();
}
usage("--dir value '$options->{dir}' is not a valid directory")
unless -d $options->{dir};
if (exists $options->{target}) {
$options->{target} =~ s/\A +//;
$options->{target} =~ s/ +\z//;
usage("--target value '$options->{target}' is not a valid directory")
unless -d $options->{target};
}
else {
$options->{target} = parent($options->{dir}) || '.';
@ -572,22 +661,25 @@ sub check_packages {
}
}
#===== SUBROUTINE ============================================================
# Name : get_config_file_options()
# Purpose : search for default settings in any .stowrc files
# Parameters: none
# Returns : a list of default options
# Throws : no exceptions
# Comments : prepends the contents of '~/.stowrc' and '.stowrc' to the command
# : line so they get parsed just like normal arguments. (This was
# : hacked in so that Emil and I could set different preferences).
# Returns : (\%rc_options, \@rc_pkgs_to_unstow, \@rc_pkgs_to_stow)
# Throws : a fatal error if a bad option is given
# Comments : Parses the contents of '~/.stowrc' and '.stowrc' with the same
# parser as the command line options. Additionally expands any
# environment variables or ~ character in --target or --dir
# options.
#=============================================================================
sub get_config_file_options {
my @defaults = ();
for my $file ("$ENV{HOME}/.stowrc", '.stowrc') {
my @dirlist = ('.stowrc');
if (defined($ENV{HOME})) {
unshift(@dirlist, "$ENV{HOME}/.stowrc");
}
for my $file (@dirlist) {
if (-r $file) {
warn "Loading defaults from $file\n";
open my $FILE, '<', $file
or die "Could not open $file for reading\n";
while (my $line = <$FILE>){
@ -597,9 +689,102 @@ sub get_config_file_options {
close $FILE or die "Could not close open file: $file\n";
}
}
return @defaults;
# Parse the options
my ($rc_options, $rc_pkgs_to_unstow, $rc_pkgs_to_stow) = parse_options(@defaults);
# Expand environment variables and glob characters.
if (exists $rc_options->{target}) {
$rc_options->{target} =
expand_filepath($rc_options->{target}, '--target option');
}
if (exists $rc_options->{dir}) {
$rc_options->{dir} =
expand_filepath($rc_options->{dir}, '--dir option');
}
return ($rc_options, $rc_pkgs_to_unstow, $rc_pkgs_to_stow);
}
#===== SUBROUTINE ============================================================
# Name : expand_filepath()
# Purpose : Handles expansions that need to be applied to
# : file paths. Currently expands environment
# : variables and the tilde.
# Parameters: $path => string to perform expansion on.
# : $source => where the string came from
# Returns : String with replacements performed.
# Throws : n/a
# Comments : n/a
#=============================================================================
sub expand_filepath {
my ($path, $source) = @_;
$path = expand_environment($path, $source);
$path = expand_tilde($path);
return $path;
}
#===== SUBROUTINE ============================================================
# Name : expand_environment()
# Purpose : Expands evironment variables.
# Parameters: $path => string to perform expansion on.
# : $source => where the string came from
# Returns : String with replacements performed.
# Throws : n/a
# Comments : Variable replacement mostly based on SO answer
# : http://stackoverflow.com/a/24675093/558820
#=============================================================================
sub expand_environment {
my ($path, $source) = @_;
# Replace non-escaped $VAR and ${VAR} with $ENV{VAR}
# If $ENV{VAR} does not exist, perl will raise a warning
# and then happily treat it as an empty string.
$path =~ s/(?<!\\)\$\{((?:\w|\s)+)\}/
_safe_expand_env_var($1, $source)
/ge;
$path =~ s/(?<!\\)\$(\w+)/
_safe_expand_env_var($1, $source)
/ge;
# Remove \$ escapes.
$path =~ s/\\\$/\$/g;
return $path;
}
sub _safe_expand_env_var {
my ($var, $source) = @_;
unless (exists $ENV{$var}) {
die "$source references undefined environment variable \$$var; " .
"aborting!\n";
}
return $ENV{$var};
}
#===== SUBROUTINE ============================================================
# Name : expand_tilde()
# Purpose : Expands tilde to user's home directory path.
# Parameters: $path => string to perform expansion on.
# Returns : String with replacements performed.
# Throws : n/a
# Comments : http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/perl4/cook/ch07_04.htm
#=============================================================================
sub expand_tilde {
my ($path) = @_;
# Replace tilde with home path.
$path =~ s{ ^ ~ ( [^/]* ) }
{ $1
? (getpwnam($1))[7]
: ( $ENV{HOME} || $ENV{LOGDIR}
|| (getpwuid($<))[7]
)
}ex;
# Replace espaced tilde with regular tilde.
$path =~ s/\\~/~/g;
return $path
}
#===== SUBROUTINE ===========================================================
# Name : usage()
# Purpose : print program usage message and exit
@ -612,7 +797,7 @@ sub usage {
my ($msg) = @_;
if ($msg) {
print "$ProgramName: $msg\n\n";
warn "$ProgramName: $msg\n\n";
}
print <<"EOT";
@ -638,10 +823,12 @@ OPTIONS:
if the file is already stowed to another package
--adopt (Use with care!) Import existing files into stow package
from target. Please read docs before using.
--dotfiles Enables special handling for dotfiles that are
Stow packages that start with "dot-" and not "."
-p, --compat Use legacy algorithm for unstowing
-n, --no, --simulate Do not actually make any filesystem changes
-v, --verbose[=N] Increase verbosity (levels are 0,1,2,3;
-v, --verbose[=N] Increase verbosity (levels are from 0 to 5;
-v or --verbose adds 1; --verbose=N sets level)
-V, --version Show stow version number
-h, --help Show this help

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@ -1,10 +1,25 @@
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# This file is part of GNU Stow.
#
# GNU Stow is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
# under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# GNU Stow is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
# General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
package Stow;
=head1 NAME
Stow - manage the installation of multiple software packages
Stow - manage farms of symbolic links
=head1 SYNOPSIS
@ -41,15 +56,13 @@ use File::Spec;
use POSIX qw(getcwd);
use Stow::Util qw(set_debug_level debug error set_test_mode
join_paths restore_cwd canon_path parent);
join_paths restore_cwd canon_path parent adjust_dotfile);
our $ProgramName = 'stow';
our $VERSION = '2.2.2';
our $VERSION = '2.3.2-fixbug56727';
our $LOCAL_IGNORE_FILE = '.stow-local-ignore';
our $GLOBAL_IGNORE_FILE = '.stow-global-ignore';
our $NO_FOLDING_FILE = '.stow-no-folding';
our $RENAME_FILE = '.stow-rename';
our @default_global_ignore_regexps =
__PACKAGE__->get_default_global_ignore_regexps();
@ -62,6 +75,7 @@ our %DEFAULT_OPTIONS = (
paranoid => 0,
compat => 0,
test_mode => 0,
dotfiles => 0,
adopt => 0,
'no-folding' => 0,
ignore => [],
@ -207,9 +221,6 @@ sub init_state {
# Store command line packages to unstow (-D and -R)
$self->{pkgs_to_delete} = [];
# Store .stow-rename info indexed by package name.
$self->{pkg_renames} = {};
# The following structures are used by the abstractions that allow us to
# defer operating on the filesystem until after all potential conflicts have
# been assessed.
@ -273,6 +284,7 @@ sub plan_unstow {
$self->{stow_path},
$package,
'.',
$path,
);
}
debug(2, "Planning unstow of package $package... done");
@ -305,6 +317,7 @@ sub plan_stow {
$package,
'.',
$path, # source from target
0,
);
debug(2, "Planning stow of package $package... done");
$self->{action_count}++;
@ -343,7 +356,9 @@ sub within_target_do {
# Parameters: $stow_path => relative path from current (i.e. target) directory
# : to the stow dir containing the package to be stowed
# : $package => the package whose contents are being stowed
# : $target => subpath relative to package and target directories
# : $target => subpath relative to package directory which needs
# : stowing as a symlink at subpath relative to target
# : directory.
# : $source => relative path from the (sub)dir of target
# : to symlink source
# Returns : n/a
@ -354,14 +369,12 @@ sub within_target_do {
#============================================================================
sub stow_contents {
my $self = shift;
my ($stow_path, $package, $target, $source) = @_;
$target = $source;
$target =~ s/^(\.\.\/)*\Q$stow_path\E\/\Q$package\E\/?//;
$target = '.' unless $target;
my $path = join_paths($stow_path, $package, $target);
my ($stow_path, $package, $target, $source, $level) = @_;
# Remove leading $level times .. from $source
my $n = 0;
my $path = join '/', map { (++$n <= $level) ? ( ) : $_ } (split m{/+}, $source);
return if $self->should_skip_target_which_is_stow_dir($target);
my $cwd = getcwd();
@ -370,11 +383,10 @@ sub stow_contents {
debug(3, $msg);
debug(4, " => $source");
my $dest = $self->renamed($package, $target);
error("stow_contents() called with non-directory path: $path")
unless -d $path;
error("stow_contents() called with non-directory target: $dest")
unless $self->is_a_node($dest);
error("stow_contents() called with non-directory target: $target")
unless $self->is_a_node($target);
opendir my $DIR, $path
or error("cannot read directory: $path ($!)");
@ -387,11 +399,19 @@ sub stow_contents {
next NODE if $node eq '..';
my $node_target = join_paths($target, $node);
next NODE if $self->ignore($stow_path, $package, $node_target);
if ($self->{dotfiles}) {
my $adj_node_target = adjust_dotfile($node_target);
debug(4, " Adjusting: $node_target => $adj_node_target");
$node_target = $adj_node_target;
}
$self->stow_node(
$stow_path,
$package,
$node_target, # target
join_paths($source, $node), # source
$level
);
}
}
@ -402,7 +422,9 @@ sub stow_contents {
# Parameters: $stow_path => relative path from current (i.e. target) directory
# : to the stow dir containing the node to be stowed
# : $package => the package containing the node being stowed
# : $target => subpath relative to package and target directories
# : $target => subpath relative to package directory of node which
# : needs stowing as a symlink at subpath relative to
# : target directory.
# : $source => relative path to symlink source from the dir of target
# Returns : n/a
# Throws : fatal exception if a conflict arises
@ -412,7 +434,7 @@ sub stow_contents {
#============================================================================
sub stow_node {
my $self = shift;
my ($stow_path, $package, $target, $source) = @_;
my ($stow_path, $package, $target, $source, $level) = @_;
my $path = join_paths($stow_path, $package, $target);
@ -434,14 +456,13 @@ sub stow_node {
}
# Does the target already exist?
my $dest = $self->renamed($package, $target);
if ($self->is_a_link($dest)) {
if ($self->is_a_link($target)) {
# Where is the link pointing?
my $existing_source = $self->read_a_link($dest);
my $existing_source = $self->read_a_link($target);
if (not $existing_source) {
error("Could not read link: $dest");
error("Could not read link: $target");
}
debug(4, " Evaluate existing link: $dest => $existing_source");
debug(4, " Evaluate existing link: $target => $existing_source");
# Does it point to a node under any stow directory?
my ($existing_path, $existing_stow_path, $existing_package) =
@ -450,7 +471,7 @@ sub stow_node {
$self->conflict(
'stow',
$package,
"existing target is not owned by stow: $dest"
"existing target is not owned by stow: $target"
);
return; # XXX #
}
@ -468,27 +489,29 @@ sub stow_node {
$self->do_unlink($target);
$self->do_link($source, $target);
}
elsif ($self->is_a_dir(join_paths(parent($dest), $existing_source)) &&
$self->is_a_dir(join_paths(parent($dest), $source)) ) {
elsif ($self->is_a_dir(join_paths(parent($target), $existing_source)) &&
$self->is_a_dir(join_paths(parent($target), $source)) ) {
# If the existing link points to a directory,
# and the proposed new link points to a directory,
# then we can unfold (split open) the tree at that point
debug(2, "--- Unfolding $dest which was already owned by $existing_package");
$self->do_unlink($dest);
$self->do_mkdir($dest);
debug(2, "--- Unfolding $target which was already owned by $existing_package");
$self->do_unlink($target);
$self->do_mkdir($target);
$self->stow_contents(
$existing_stow_path,
$existing_package,
$target,
join_paths('..', $existing_source),
$level + 1,
);
$self->stow_contents(
$self->{stow_path},
$package,
$target,
join_paths('..', $source),
$level + 1,
);
}
else {
@ -496,52 +519,54 @@ sub stow_node {
'stow',
$package,
"existing target is stowed to a different package: "
. "$dest => $existing_source"
. "$target => $existing_source"
);
}
}
else {
# The existing link is invalid, so replace it with a good link
debug(2, "--- replacing invalid link: $dest");
$self->do_unlink($dest);
$self->do_link($source, $dest);
debug(2, "--- replacing invalid link: $path");
$self->do_unlink($target);
$self->do_link($source, $target);
}
}
elsif ($self->is_a_node($dest)) {
debug(4, " Evaluate existing node: $dest");
if ($self->is_a_dir($dest)) {
elsif ($self->is_a_node($target)) {
debug(4, " Evaluate existing node: $target");
if ($self->is_a_dir($target)) {
$self->stow_contents(
$self->{stow_path},
$package,
$target,
join_paths('..', $source),
$level + 1,
);
}
else {
if ($self->{adopt}) {
$self->do_mv($dest, $path);
$self->do_link($source, $dest);
$self->do_mv($target, $path);
$self->do_link($source, $target);
}
else {
$self->conflict(
'stow',
$package,
"existing target is neither a link nor a directory: $dest"
"existing target is neither a link nor a directory: $target"
);
}
}
}
elsif ($self->{'no-folding'} && -d $path && ! -l $path) {
$self->do_mkdir($dest);
$self->do_mkdir($target);
$self->stow_contents(
$self->{stow_path},
$package,
$target,
join_paths('..', $source),
$level + 1,
);
}
else {
$self->do_link($source, $dest);
$self->do_link($source, $target);
}
return;
}
@ -570,7 +595,7 @@ sub should_skip_target_which_is_stow_dir {
return 1;
}
debug (4, "$target not protected");
debug(4, "$target not protected");
return 0;
}
@ -724,10 +749,7 @@ sub unstow_node_orig {
#============================================================================
sub unstow_contents {
my $self = shift;
my ($stow_path, $package, $target) = @_;
my $path = join_paths($stow_path, $package, $target);
my $dest = $self->renamed($package, $target);
my ($stow_path, $package, $target, $path) = @_;
return if $self->should_skip_target_which_is_stow_dir($target);
@ -742,8 +764,8 @@ sub unstow_contents {
# When called at the top level, $target should exist. And
# unstow_node() should only call this via mutual recursion if
# $target exists.
error("unstow_contents() called with invalid target: $dest")
unless $self->is_a_node($dest);
error("unstow_contents() called with invalid target: $target")
unless $self->is_a_node($target);
opendir my $DIR, $path
or error("cannot read directory: $path ($!)");
@ -756,7 +778,14 @@ sub unstow_contents {
next NODE if $node eq '..';
my $node_target = join_paths($target, $node);
next NODE if $self->ignore($stow_path, $package, $node_target);
$self->unstow_node($stow_path, $package, $node_target);
if ($self->{dotfiles}) {
my $adj_node_target = adjust_dotfile($node_target);
debug(4, " Adjusting: $node_target => $adj_node_target");
$node_target = $adj_node_target;
}
$self->unstow_node($stow_path, $package, $node_target, join_paths($path, $node));
}
if (-d $target) {
$self->cleanup_invalid_links($target);
@ -776,26 +805,25 @@ sub unstow_contents {
#============================================================================
sub unstow_node {
my $self = shift;
my ($stow_path, $package, $target) = @_;
my ($stow_path, $package, $target, $source) = @_;
my $path = join_paths($stow_path, $package, $target);
my $dest = $self->renamed($package, $target);
debug(3, "Unstowing $path");
debug(4, " target is $dest");
debug(4, " target is $target");
# Does the target exist?
if ($self->is_a_link($dest)) {
debug(4, " Evaluate existing link: $dest");
if ($self->is_a_link($target)) {
debug(4, " Evaluate existing link: $target");
# Where is the link pointing?
my $existing_source = $self->read_a_link($dest);
my $existing_source = $self->read_a_link($target);
if (not $existing_source) {
error("Could not read link: $dest");
error("Could not read link: $target");
}
if ($existing_source =~ m{\A/}) {
warn "Ignoring an absolute symlink: $dest => $existing_source\n";
warn "Ignoring an absolute symlink: $target => $existing_source\n";
return; # XXX #
}
@ -806,7 +834,7 @@ sub unstow_node {
$self->conflict(
'unstow',
$package,
"existing target is not owned by stow: $dest => $existing_source"
"existing target is not owned by stow: $target => $existing_source"
);
return; # XXX #
}
@ -814,8 +842,14 @@ sub unstow_node {
# Does the existing $target actually point to anything?
if (-e $existing_path) {
# Does link points to the right place?
# Adjust for dotfile if necessary.
if ($self->{dotfiles}) {
$existing_path = adjust_dotfile($existing_path);
}
if ($existing_path eq $path) {
$self->do_unlink($dest);
$self->do_unlink($target);
}
# XXX we quietly ignore links that are stowed to a different
@ -838,30 +872,30 @@ sub unstow_node {
#}
}
else {
debug(2, "--- removing invalid link into a stow directory: $dest");
$self->do_unlink($dest);
debug(2, "--- removing invalid link into a stow directory: $path");
$self->do_unlink($target);
}
}
elsif (-e $dest) {
debug(4, " Evaluate existing node: $dest");
if (-d $dest) {
$self->unstow_contents($stow_path, $package, $target);
elsif (-e $target) {
debug(4, " Evaluate existing node: $target");
if (-d $target) {
$self->unstow_contents($stow_path, $package, $target, $source);
# This action may have made the parent directory foldable
if (my $parent = $self->foldable($dest)) {
$self->fold_tree($dest, $parent);
if (my $parent = $self->foldable($target)) {
$self->fold_tree($target, $parent);
}
}
else {
$self->conflict(
'unstow',
$package,
"existing target is neither a link nor a directory: $dest",
"existing target is neither a link nor a directory: $target",
);
}
}
else {
debug(2, "$dest did not exist to be unstowed");
debug(2, "$target did not exist to be unstowed");
}
return;
}
@ -889,18 +923,20 @@ sub path_owned_by_package {
# Name : find_stowed_path()
# Purpose : determine whether the given link points to a member of a
# : stowed package
# Parameters: $target => path to a symbolic link under current directory
# Parameters: $target => path to a symbolic link under current directory.
# : Must share a common prefix with $self->{stow_path}
# : $source => where that link points to (needed because link
# : might not exist yet due to two-phase approach,
# : so we can't just call readlink())
# : so we can't just call readlink()). This must be
# : expressed relative to (the directory containing)
# : $target.
# Returns : ($path, $stow_path, $package) where $path and $stow_path are
# : relative from the current (i.e. target) directory. $path
# : is the full relative path, $stow_path is the relative path
# : to the stow directory, and $package is the name of the package.
# : or ('', '', '') if link is not owned by stow
# Throws : n/a
# Comments : Needs
# : Allow for stow dir not being under target dir.
# Comments : Allow for stow dir not being under target dir.
# : We could put more logic under here for multiple stow dirs.
#============================================================================
sub find_stowed_path {
@ -932,6 +968,12 @@ sub find_stowed_path {
# If no .stow file was found, we need to find out whether it's
# owned by the current stow directory, in which case $path will be
# a prefix of $self->{stow_path}.
if (substr($path, 0, 1) eq '/' xor substr($self->{stow_path}, 0, 1) eq '/')
{
warn "BUG in find_stowed_path? Absolute/relative mismatch between " .
"Stow dir $self->{stow_path} and path $path";
}
my @stow_path = split m{/+}, $self->{stow_path};
# Strip off common prefixes until one is empty
@ -948,7 +990,7 @@ sub find_stowed_path {
}
my $package = shift @path;
debug(4, " yes - by $package in " . join_paths(@path));
return ($path, $self->{stow_path}, $package);
}
@ -1326,11 +1368,6 @@ sub get_ignore_regexps_from_fh {
# because this is the only place stow looks for them.
$regexps{"^/\Q$LOCAL_IGNORE_FILE\E\$"}++;
# Also ignore the files .stow-no-folding and .stow-rename, for the same
# reason.
$regexps{"^/\Q$NO_FOLDING_FILE\E\$"}++;
$regexps{"^/\Q$RENAME_FILE\E\$"}++;
return $self->compile_ignore_regexps(%regexps);
}
@ -1620,46 +1657,6 @@ sub is_a_link {
return 0;
}
sub renamed {
my $self = shift;
my ($package, $path) = @_;
return $self->do_rename($self->read_rename_file($package), $path);
}
sub read_rename_file {
my $self = shift;
my ($package) = @_;
return $self->{pkg_renames}{$package} if defined $self->{pkg_renames}{$package};
my %renames = ();
$self->{pkg_renames}{$package} = \%renames;
my $file = join_paths($self->{stow_path}, $package, $RENAME_FILE);
return \%renames if (not -f $file);
open my $fh, $file or die "Could not open file $!";
while (<$fh>) {
chomp;
%renames = (%renames, split/\s*=>\s*/);
}
close $fh;
return \%renames;
}
sub do_rename {
my $self = shift;
my ($renames, $path) = @_;
my %renames = %{ $renames };
return $renames{$path} if $renames{$path};
foreach my $dir (keys %renames) {
if (0 == index $path, $dir) {
$path =~ s/^\Q$dir\E/$renames{$dir}/;
}
}
return $path;
}
#===== METHOD ===============================================================
# Name : is_a_dir()
# Purpose : determine if the given path is a current or planned directory

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@ -1,3 +1,18 @@
# This file is part of GNU Stow.
#
# GNU Stow is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
# under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# GNU Stow is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
# General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
package Stow::Util;
=head1 NAME
@ -22,11 +37,11 @@ use POSIX qw(getcwd);
use base qw(Exporter);
our @EXPORT_OK = qw(
error debug set_debug_level set_test_mode
join_paths parent canon_path restore_cwd
join_paths parent canon_path restore_cwd adjust_dotfile
);
our $ProgramName = 'stow';
our $VERSION = '2.2.2';
our $VERSION = '2.3.2-fixbug56727';
#############################################################################
#
@ -193,6 +208,20 @@ sub restore_cwd {
chdir($prev) or error("Your current directory $prev seems to have vanished");
}
sub adjust_dotfile {
my ($target) = @_;
my @result = ();
for my $part (split m{/+}, $target) {
if (($part ne "dot-") && ($part ne "dot-.")) {
$part =~ s/^dot-/./;
}
push @result, $part;
}
return join '/', @result;
}
=head1 BUGS
=head1 SEE ALSO

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How to install GNU Stow
=======================
Prerequisites
-------------
Stow is a collection of Perl scripts and modules. You must have Perl
5.6.1 or later in order for it to run. The test suite also requires
the `Test::More` and `Test::Output` modules which can be obtained from
CPAN. They are also available as packages in some of the GNU/Linux
distributions.
Installation methods
--------------------
Stow can either be installed via the standard GNU Autotools procedure
(`./configure && make install`) or since 2.1.0, via CPAN-style via
Module::Build.
Advantages of the Autotools approach:
- It's arguably more flexible.
- It will install the documentation in Info, HTML, man, and PDF
formats.
Advantages of the `Module::Build` approach:
- It's more in keeping with the standard way to distribute CPAN
modules.
- It performs dependency checking to ensure you have the necessary
Perl modules installed.
Both approaches are described in detail below. However if you are
building from the git repository rather than an official release,
you first need to perform some extra steps:
Preparatory steps required only when building from git
------------------------------------------------------
`configure` and `Makefile` are included in official releases of Stow,
but they are deliberately omitted from the git repository because they
are autogenerated. Therefore if you are installing directly from git,
you first need to generate them as follows.
First `cd` to the directory containing the source code (and this
file), and then run:
autoreconf -iv
If this runs successfully then you are ready to continue with one of
the two installation methods below.
Basic Installation via `Module::Build`
--------------------------------------
The steps in building Stow are:
1. `cd` to the directory containing the source code (and this file).
2. If you are building from an official GNU release tarball, type
`./configure && make` to configure stow for your system. If you
are building from a CPAN tarball, this step can be skipped.
If `make` warns that the Perl module installation directory is
not in `@INC`, then you should run:
eval `perl -V:siteprefix`
./configure --prefix=$siteprefix && make
to avoid a superfluous `use lib` line in your stow executable.
3. Type `perl Build.PL`.
4. Type `./Build install` to install the various files. As noted
above, this installs fewer files than the Autotools installation.
Basic Installation via Autotools
--------------------------------
The steps in building Stow are:
1. `cd` to the directory containing the source code (and this file).
2. Type `./configure` to configure stow for your system. This step
will attempt to locate your copy of perl and set its location in
`Makefile.in`. You can use the normal arguments to change the
default installation paths (see below); additionally you can use
the
--with-pmdir=/path/to/perl/modules
option to manually choose where the Perl modules get installed.
However, if you don't, the `configure` script will go to great
lengths to try to choose a sensible default.
3. Type `make install` to install the various files. If the chosen
installation directory for Perl modules is not included in Perl's
built-in `@INC` search path, the Makefile rules will automatically
insert a
use lib "...";
line into the generated stow script to ensure that it can always
locate the Perl modules without needing to manually set `PERL5LIB`.
4. You can remove the generated files from the source code directory
by typing `make clean`. To also remove the files that `configure`
created (so you can compile the package for a different computer),
type `make distclean`. There is also a `make maintainer-clean`
target, but that is intended mainly for stow's developers. If you
use it, you may have to get all sorts of other programs in order
to regenerate files that came with the distribution.
Installation Names
------------------
By default, `make install` will install the package's files in
`/usr/local/bin` and `/usr/local/info`. You can specify an
installation prefix other than `/usr/local` by giving `configure` the
option `--prefix=PATH`.
If the package supports it, you can cause programs to be installed
with an extra prefix or suffix on their names by giving `configure`
the option `--program-prefix=PREFIX` or `--program-suffix=SUFFIX`.
Since `stow` is concerned with separating a package's installation
tree from its run-time tree, you might want to install `stow` into a
directory such as `/usr/local/stow/stow` but have it run out of
`/usr/local`. Do this by giving the run-time prefix (e.g.,
/usr/local) to configure as described above; then run `make`; then run
`make install prefix=/usr/local/stow/stow`. For more information on
this technique, see the Stow manual.
The configuration system
------------------------
The `configure` shell script attempts to guess correct values for
various system-dependent variables used during compilation. It uses
those values to create a `Makefile` and to create the `stow` script
itself, using Makefile.in and stow.in as templates. Finally, it
creates a shell script `config.status` that you can run in the future
to recreate the current configuration, a file `config.cache` that
saves the results of its tests to speed up reconfiguring, and a file
`config.log` containing other output.
The file `configure.ac` is used to create `configure` by a program
called `autoconf`. You only need `configure.ac` if you want to change
it or regenerate `configure` using a newer version of `autoconf`.
The file `Makefile.am` is used to create `Makefile.in` by a program
called `automake`. You only need `Makefile.am` if you want to change
it or regenerate `Makefile.in` using a newer version of `automake`.
Sharing Defaults
----------------
If you want to set default values for `configure` scripts to share,
you can create a site shell script called `config.site` that gives
default values for variables like `CC`, `cache_file`, and `prefix`.
`configure` looks for `PREFIX/share/config.site` if it exists, then
`PREFIX/etc/config.site` if it exists. Or, you can set the
`CONFIG_SITE` environment variable to the location of the site script.
A warning: not all `configure` scripts look for a site script.
Operation Controls
------------------
`configure` recognizes the following options to control how it
operates.
`--cache-file=FILE`
Use and save the results of the tests in FILE instead of
`./config.cache`. Set FILE to `/dev/null` to disable caching, for
debugging `configure`.
`--help`
Print a summary of the options to `configure`, and exit.
`--quiet`
`--silent`
`-q`
Do not print messages saying which checks are being made.
`--srcdir=DIR`
Look for the package's source code in directory DIR. Usually
`configure` can determine that directory automatically.
`--version`
Print the version of Autoconf used to generate the `configure`
script, and exit.
`configure` also accepts some other, not widely useful, options.
License for this file
---------------------
Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
notice and this notice are preserved. This file is offered as-is,
without any warranty.

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README for GNU Stow
===================
This is GNU Stow, a symlink farm manager program which takes distinct
packages of software and/or data located in separate directories on
the filesystem, and makes them appear to be installed in the same
place. For example, /usr/local/bin could contain symlinks to files
within /usr/local/stow/emacs/bin, /usr/local/stow/perl/bin etc., and
likewise recursively for any other subdirectories such as .../share,
.../man, and so on.
This is particularly useful for keeping track of system-wide and
per-user installations of software built from source, but can also
facilitate a more controlled approach to management of configuration
files in the user's home directory, especially when coupled with
version control systems.
Stow is implemented as a combination of a Perl script providing a CLI
interface, and a backend Perl module which does most of the work.
You can get the latest information about Stow from the home page:
http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/
License
-------
Stow is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License,
which can be found in the file COPYING.
Installation
------------
See INSTALL for installation instructions.
Feedback
--------
Please do send comments, questions, and constructive criticism. The
mailing lists and any other communication channels are detailed on the
above home page.
Brief history
-------------
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).

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[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/aspiers/stow.svg)](https://travis-ci.org/aspiers/stow)
[![Coverage Status](https://coveralls.io/repos/aspiers/stow/badge.svg?branch=master&service=github)](https://coveralls.io/github/aspiers/stow?branch=master)
README for GNU Stow
===================
This README describes GNU Stow. This is not the definitive
documentation for Stow; for that, see the [info
manual](https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/manual/).
Stow is a symlink farm manager program which takes distinct sets
of software and/or data located in separate directories on the
filesystem, and makes them all appear to be installed in a single
directory tree.
Originally Stow was born to address the need to administer, upgrade,
install, and remove files in independent software packages without
confusing them with other files sharing the same file system space.
For instance, many years ago it used to be common to compile programs
such as Perl and Emacs from source and install them in `/usr/local`.
By using Stow, `/usr/local/bin` could contain symlinks to files within
`/usr/local/stow/emacs/bin`, `/usr/local/stow/perl/bin` etc., and
likewise recursively for any other subdirectories such as `.../share`,
`.../man`, and so on.
While this is useful for keeping track of system-wide and per-user
installations of software built from source, in more recent times
software packages are often managed by more sophisticated package
management software such as
[`rpm`](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rpm_(software)),
[`dpkg`](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dpkg), and
[Nix](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_package_manager) / [GNU
Guix](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Guix), or language-native
package managers such as Ruby's
[`gem`](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RubyGems), Python's
[`pip`](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pip_(package_manager)),
Javascript's [`npm`](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npm_(software)),
and so on.
However Stow is still used not only for software package management,
but also for other purposes, such as facilitating [a more controlled
approach to management of configuration files in the user's home
directory](http://brandon.invergo.net/news/2012-05-26-using-gnu-stow-to-manage-your-dotfiles.html),
especially when [coupled with version control
systems](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-stow/2011-12/msg00000.html).
Stow was inspired by Carnegie Mellon's Depot program, but is
substantially simpler and safer. Whereas Depot required database files
to keep things in sync, Stow stores no extra state between runs, so
there's no danger (as there was 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`).
Stow is implemented as a combination of a Perl script providing a CLI
interface, and a backend Perl module which does most of the work.
You can get the latest information about Stow from the home page:
http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/
License
-------
Stow is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License,
which can be found in the file [`COPYING`](COPYING).
Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
notice and this notice are preserved. This file is offered as-is,
without any warranty.
Installation
------------
See [`INSTALL.md`](INSTALL.md) for installation instructions.
Feedback
--------
Please do send comments, questions, and constructive criticism. The
mailing lists and any other communication channels are detailed on the
above home page.
Brief history and authorship
----------------------------
Stow was inspired by Carnegie Mellon's "Depot" program, but is
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never delete any files, directories, or links that appear in a Stow
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rebuild the target tree (e.g., `/usr/local`).
For a high-level overview of the contributions of the main developers
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<p>Suppose you have a stow directory all set up and ready to go:
<samp><span class="file">/usr/local/stow/perl</span></samp> contains the Perl installation,
<samp><span class="file">/usr/local/stow/stow</span></samp> contains Stow itself, and perhaps you have
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<h2 class="chapter" id="Compile_002dtime-vs-Install_002dtime-1"><span>12 Compile-time vs Install-time<a class="copiable-link" href="#Compile_002dtime-vs-Install_002dtime-1"> &para;</a></span></h2>
<p>Software whose installation is managed with Stow needs to be installed
in one place (the package directory, e.g. <samp><span class="file">/usr/local/stow/perl</span></samp>)
in one place (the package directory, e.g. <samp class="file">/usr/local/stow/perl</samp>)
but needs to appear to run in another place (the target tree, e.g.,
<samp><span class="file">/usr/local</span></samp>). Why is this important? What's wrong with Perl, for
instance, looking for its files in <samp><span class="file">/usr/local/stow/perl</span></samp> instead
of in <samp><span class="file">/usr/local</span></samp>?
<p>The answer is that there may be another package, e.g.,
<samp><span class="file">/usr/local/stow/perl-extras</span></samp>, stowed under <samp><span class="file">/usr/local</span></samp>. If
Perl is configured to find its files in <samp><span class="file">/usr/local/stow/perl</span></samp>, it
will never find the extra files in the &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">perl-extras</span></samp>&rsquo; package, even
though they're intended to be found by Perl. On the other hand, if Perl
looks for its files in <samp><span class="file">/usr/local</span></samp>, then it will find the
intermingled Perl and &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">perl-extras</span></samp>&rsquo; files.
<p>This means that when you compile a package, you must tell it the
<samp class="file">/usr/local</samp>). Why is this important? What&rsquo;s wrong with Perl, for
instance, looking for its files in <samp class="file">/usr/local/stow/perl</samp> instead
of in <samp class="file">/usr/local</samp>?
</p>
<p>The answer is that there may be another package, e.g.,
<samp class="file">/usr/local/stow/perl-extras</samp>, stowed under <samp class="file">/usr/local</samp>. If
Perl is configured to find its files in <samp class="file">/usr/local/stow/perl</samp>, it
will never find the extra files in the &lsquo;<samp class="samp">perl-extras</samp>&rsquo; package, even
though they&rsquo;re intended to be found by Perl. On the other hand, if Perl
looks for its files in <samp class="file">/usr/local</samp>, then it will find the
intermingled Perl and &lsquo;<samp class="samp">perl-extras</samp>&rsquo; files.
</p>
<p>This means that when you compile a package, you must tell it the
location of the run-time, or target tree; but when you install it, you
must place it in the stow tree.
<h3 class="section">12.1 Advice on changing compilation and installation parameters</h3>
</p>
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<p>Some software packages allow you to specify, at compile-time, separate
locations for installation and for run-time. Perl is one such package;
see <a href="Perl-and-Perl-5-Modules.html#Perl-and-Perl-5-Modules">Perl and Perl 5 Modules</a>. Others allow you to compile the
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see <a class="ref" href="Perl-and-Perl-5-Modules.html">Perl and Perl 5 Modules</a>. Others allow you to compile the
package, then give a different destination in the &lsquo;<samp class="samp">make install</samp>&rsquo;
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GNU software falls into this category; Emacs is a notable exception.
See <a href="GNU-Emacs.html#GNU-Emacs">GNU Emacs</a>, and <a href="Other-FSF-Software.html#Other-FSF-Software">Other FSF Software</a>.
<p>Still other software packages cannot abide the idea of separate
installation and run-time locations at all. If you try to &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">make
install prefix=/usr/local/stow/</span><var>foo</var></samp>&rsquo;, then first the whole package
will be recompiled to hardwire the <samp><span class="file">/usr/local/stow/</span><var>foo</var></samp>
GNU software falls into this category; Emacs is a notable exception.
See <a class="xref" href="GNU-Emacs.html">GNU Emacs</a>, and <a class="ref" href="Other-FSF-Software.html">Other FSF Software</a>.
</p>
<p>Still other software packages cannot abide the idea of separate
installation and run-time locations at all. If you try to &lsquo;<samp class="samp">make
install prefix=/usr/local/stow/<var class="var">foo</var></samp>&rsquo;, then first the whole package
will be recompiled to hardwire the <samp class="file">/usr/local/stow/<var class="var">foo</var></samp>
path. With these packages, it is best to compile normally, then run
&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">make -n install</span></samp>&rsquo;, which should report all the steps needed to
&lsquo;<samp class="samp">make -n install</samp>&rsquo;, which should report all the steps needed to
install the just-built software. Place this output into a file, edit
the commands in the file to remove recompilation steps and to reflect
the Stow-based installation location, and execute the edited file as a
shell script in place of &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">make install</span></samp>&rsquo;. Be sure to execute the
script using the same shell that &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">make install</span></samp>&rsquo; would have used.
shell script in place of &lsquo;<samp class="samp">make install</samp>&rsquo;. Be sure to execute the
script using the same shell that &lsquo;<samp class="samp">make install</samp>&rsquo; would have used.
</p>
<p>(If you use GNU Make and a shell [such as GNU bash] that understands
<code class="command">pushd</code> and <code class="command">popd</code>, you can do the following:
</p>
<ol class="enumerate">
<li> Replace all lines matching &lsquo;<samp class="samp">make[<var class="var">n</var>]: Entering directory
<var class="var">dir</var></samp>&rsquo; with &lsquo;<samp class="samp">pushd <var class="var">dir</var></samp>&rsquo;.
</li><li> Replace all lines matching &lsquo;<samp class="samp">make[<var class="var">n</var>]: Leaving directory
<var class="var">dir</var></samp>&rsquo; with &lsquo;<samp class="samp">popd</samp>&rsquo;.
</li><li> Delete all lines matching &lsquo;<samp class="samp">make[<var class="var">n</var>]: Nothing to be done for
<var class="var">rule</var></samp>&rsquo;.
</li></ol>
<p>(If you use GNU Make and a shell [such as GNU bash] that understands
<samp><span class="command">pushd</span></samp> and <samp><span class="command">popd</span></samp>, you can do the following:
<ol type=1 start=1>
<li>Replace all lines matching &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">make[</span><var>n</var><span class="samp">]: Entering directory
</span><var>dir</var></samp>&rsquo; with &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">pushd </span><var>dir</var></samp>&rsquo;.
<li>Replace all lines matching &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">make[</span><var>n</var><span class="samp">]: Leaving directory
</span><var>dir</var></samp>&rsquo; with &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">popd</span></samp>&rsquo;.
<li>Delete all lines matching &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">make[</span><var>n</var><span class="samp">]: Nothing to be done for
</span><var>rule</var></samp>&rsquo;.
</ol>
<p>Then find other lines in the output containing <samp><span class="command">cd</span></samp> or <samp><span class="command">make</span></samp>
<p>Then find other lines in the output containing <code class="command">cd</code> or <code class="command">make</code>
commands and rewrite or delete them. In particular, you should be able
to delete sections of the script that resemble this:
</p>
<div class="example">
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(cd $i; make <var class="var">args</var> <span class="r">...</span>) \
done
</pre></div>
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(cd $i; make <var>args</var> <span class="roman">...</span>) \
done
</pre>
<p class="noindent">Note, that's &ldquo;should be able to,&rdquo; not &ldquo;can.&rdquo; Be sure to modulate
<p>Note, that&rsquo;s &ldquo;should be able to,&rdquo; not &ldquo;can.&rdquo; Be sure to modulate
these guidelines with plenty of your own intelligence.
<p>The details of stowing some specific packages are described in the
</p>
<p>The details of stowing some specific packages are described in the
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<p><a name="index-conflicts-31"></a>If, during installation, a file or symlink exists in the target tree and
<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-conflicts-1"></a>
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<p>Cygnus is a commercial supplier and supporter of GNU software. It has
also written several of its own packages, released under the terms of
the GNU General Public License; and it has taken over the maintenance of
other packages. Among the packages released by Cygnus are &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">gdb</span></samp>&rsquo;,
&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">gnats</span></samp>&rsquo;, and &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">dejagnu</span></samp>&rsquo;.
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other packages. Among the packages released by Cygnus are &lsquo;<samp class="samp">gdb</samp>&rsquo;,
&lsquo;<samp class="samp">gnats</samp>&rsquo;, and &lsquo;<samp class="samp">dejagnu</samp>&rsquo;.
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<p>Cygnus packages have the peculiarity that each one unpacks into a
directory tree with a generic top-level Makefile, which is set up to
compile <em>all</em> of Cygnus' packages, any number of which may reside
under the top-level directory. In other words, even if you're only
building &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">gnats</span></samp>&rsquo;, the top-level Makefile will look for, and try to
build, <samp><span class="file">gdb</span></samp> and <samp><span class="file">dejagnu</span></samp> subdirectories, among many others.
<p>The result is that if you try &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">make -n install
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package, you'll get a bewildering amount of output. It will then be
compile <em class="emph">all</em> of Cygnus&rsquo; packages, any number of which may reside
under the top-level directory. In other words, even if you&rsquo;re only
building &lsquo;<samp class="samp">gnats</samp>&rsquo;, the top-level Makefile will look for, and try to
build, <samp class="file">gdb</samp> and <samp class="file">dejagnu</samp> subdirectories, among many others.
</p>
<p>The result is that if you try &lsquo;<samp class="samp">make -n install
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package, you&rsquo;ll get a bewildering amount of output. It will then be
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<p><a name="index-deletion-28"></a>When the <samp><span class="option">-D</span></samp> option is given, the action of Stow is to
<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-deletion"></a>
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<samp><span class="file">/usr/local/bin</span></samp> and <samp><span class="file">/usr/local/bin/man</span></samp>, and not
<samp><span class="file">/usr/local/lib</span></samp> or <samp><span class="file">/usr/local/share</span></samp>, or for that matter
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</p>
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<p class="noindent">If you try this with Emacs, then the new value for <var>prefix</var> in the
&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">make install</span></samp>&rsquo; step will cause some files to get recompiled with
the new value of <var>prefix</var> wired into them. In Emacs 19.23 and
later,<a rel="footnote" href="#fn-1" name="fnd-1"><sup>1</sup></a>
<p>If you try this with Emacs, then the new value for <var class="var">prefix</var> in the
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the new value of <var class="var">prefix</var> wired into them. In Emacs 19.23 and
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<p>In 19.22 and some prior versions of Emacs, the workaround was:
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<h2 class="chapter" id="Installing-Packages-1"><span>5 Installing Packages<a class="copiable-link" href="#Installing-Packages-1"> &para;</a></span></h2>
<h2 class="chapter">5 Installing Packages</h2>
<p><a name="index-installation-17"></a>The default action of Stow is to install a package. This means creating
<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-installation"></a>
<p>The default action of Stow is to install a package. This means creating
symlinks in the target tree that point into the package tree. Stow
attempts to do this with as few symlinks as possible; in other words, if
Stow can create a single symlink that points to an entire subtree within
the package tree, it will choose to do that rather than create a
directory in the target tree and populate it with symlinks.
<p><a name="tree-folding"></a>
<h3 class="section">5.1 Tree folding</h3>
<p><a name="index-tree-folding-18"></a><a name="index-directory-folding-19"></a><a name="index-folding-trees-20"></a>For example, suppose that no packages have yet been installed in
<samp><span class="file">/usr/local</span></samp>; it's completely empty (except for the <samp><span class="file">stow</span></samp>
subdirectory, of course). Now suppose the Perl package is installed.
</p>
<a class="anchor" id="tree-folding"></a><ul class="mini-toc">
<li><a href="#Tree-folding" accesskey="1">Tree folding</a></li>
<li><a href="#Tree-unfolding-1" accesskey="2">Tree unfolding</a></li>
<li><a href="#Ownership" accesskey="3">Ownership</a></li>
<li><a href="#Conflicts-during-installation" accesskey="4">Conflicts during installation</a></li>
</ul>
<div class="section-level-extent" id="Tree-folding">
<h3 class="section"><span>5.1 Tree folding<a class="copiable-link" href="#Tree-folding"> &para;</a></span></h3>
<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-tree-folding"></a>
<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-directory-folding"></a>
<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-folding-trees"></a>
<p>For example, suppose that no packages have yet been installed in
<samp class="file">/usr/local</samp>; it&rsquo;s completely empty (except for the <samp class="file">stow</samp>
subdirectory, of course). Now suppose the Perl package is installed.
Recall that it includes the following directories in its installation
image: <samp><span class="file">bin</span></samp>; <samp><span class="file">info</span></samp>; <samp><span class="file">lib/perl</span></samp>; <samp><span class="file">man/man1</span></samp>.
Rather than creating the directory <samp><span class="file">/usr/local/bin</span></samp> and populating
it with symlinks to <samp><span class="file">../stow/perl/bin/perl</span></samp> and
<samp><span class="file">../stow/perl/bin/a2p</span></samp> (and so on), Stow will create a
single symlink, <samp><span class="file">/usr/local/bin</span></samp>, which points to
<samp><span class="file">stow/perl/bin</span></samp>. In this way, it still works to refer to
<samp><span class="file">/usr/local/bin/perl</span></samp> and <samp><span class="file">/usr/local/bin/a2p</span></samp>, and fewer
symlinks have been created. This is called <dfn>tree folding</dfn>, since an
image: <samp class="file">bin</samp>; <samp class="file">info</samp>; <samp class="file">lib/perl</samp>; <samp class="file">man/man1</samp>.
Rather than creating the directory <samp class="file">/usr/local/bin</samp> and populating
it with symlinks to <samp class="file">../stow/perl/bin/perl</samp> and
<samp class="file">../stow/perl/bin/a2p</samp> (and so on), Stow will create a
single symlink, <samp class="file">/usr/local/bin</samp>, which points to
<samp class="file">stow/perl/bin</samp>. In this way, it still works to refer to
<samp class="file">/usr/local/bin/perl</samp> and <samp class="file">/usr/local/bin/a2p</samp>, and fewer
symlinks have been created. This is called <em class="dfn">tree folding</em>, since an
entire subtree is &ldquo;folded&rdquo; into a single symlink.
<p>To complete this example, Stow will also create the symlink
<samp><span class="file">/usr/local/info</span></samp> pointing to <samp><span class="file">stow/perl/info</span></samp>; the symlink
<samp><span class="file">/usr/local/lib</span></samp> pointing to <samp><span class="file">stow/perl/lib</span></samp>; and the symlink
<samp><span class="file">/usr/local/man</span></samp> pointing to <samp><span class="file">stow/perl/man</span></samp>.
<p>Now suppose that instead of installing the Perl package into an empty
</p>
<p>To complete this example, Stow will also create the symlink
<samp class="file">/usr/local/info</samp> pointing to <samp class="file">stow/perl/info</samp>; the symlink
<samp class="file">/usr/local/lib</samp> pointing to <samp class="file">stow/perl/lib</samp>; and the symlink
<samp class="file">/usr/local/man</samp> pointing to <samp class="file">stow/perl/man</samp>.
</p>
<p>Now suppose that instead of installing the Perl package into an empty
target tree, the target tree is not empty to begin with. Instead, it
contains several files and directories installed under a different
system-administration philosophy. In particular, <samp><span class="file">/usr/local/bin</span></samp>
already exists and is a directory, as are <samp><span class="file">/usr/local/lib</span></samp> and
<samp><span class="file">/usr/local/man/man1</span></samp>. In this case, Stow will descend into
<samp><span class="file">/usr/local/bin</span></samp> and create symlinks to
<samp><span class="file">../stow/perl/bin/perl</span></samp> and <samp><span class="file">../stow/perl/bin/a2p</span></samp> (etc.),
and it will descend into <samp><span class="file">/usr/local/lib</span></samp> and create the
tree-folding symlink <samp><span class="file">perl</span></samp> pointing to
<samp><span class="file">../stow/perl/lib/perl</span></samp>, and so on. As a rule, Stow only
system-administration philosophy. In particular, <samp class="file">/usr/local/bin</samp>
already exists and is a directory, as are <samp class="file">/usr/local/lib</samp> and
<samp class="file">/usr/local/man/man1</samp>. In this case, Stow will descend into
<samp class="file">/usr/local/bin</samp> and create symlinks to
<samp class="file">../stow/perl/bin/perl</samp> and <samp class="file">../stow/perl/bin/a2p</samp> (etc.),
and it will descend into <samp class="file">/usr/local/lib</samp> and create the
tree-folding symlink <samp class="file">perl</samp> pointing to
<samp class="file">../stow/perl/lib/perl</samp>, and so on. As a rule, Stow only
descends as far as necessary into the target tree when it can create a
tree-folding symlink. However, this behaviour can be changed via
the <samp><span class="option">--no-folding</span></samp> option; see <a href="Invoking-Stow.html#Invoking-Stow">Invoking Stow</a>.
<p><a name="Tree-unfolding"></a>
<h3 class="section">5.2 Tree unfolding</h3>
<p><a name="index-splitting-open-folded-trees-21"></a><a name="index-unfolding-trees-22"></a><a name="index-tree-unfolding-23"></a><a name="index-tree-unsplitting-24"></a>The time often comes when a tree-folding symlink has to be undone
the <samp class="option">--no-folding</samp> option; see <a class="pxref" href="Invoking-Stow.html">Invoking Stow</a>.
</p>
<a class="anchor" id="Tree-unfolding"></a></div>
<div class="section-level-extent" id="Tree-unfolding-1">
<h3 class="section"><span>5.2 Tree unfolding<a class="copiable-link" href="#Tree-unfolding-1"> &para;</a></span></h3>
<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-splitting-open-folded-trees"></a>
<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-unfolding-trees"></a>
<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-tree-unfolding"></a>
<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-tree-unsplitting"></a>
<p>The time often comes when a tree-folding symlink has to be undone
because another package uses one or more of the folded subdirectories in
its installation image. This operation is called <dfn>splitting open</dfn> or
<dfn>unfolding</dfn> a folded tree. It involves removing the original symlink from
its installation image. This operation is called <em class="dfn">splitting open</em> or
<em class="dfn">unfolding</em> a folded tree. It involves removing the original symlink from
the target tree, creating a true directory in its place, and then populating the
new directory with symlinks to the newly-installed package <em>and</em> to
new directory with symlinks to the newly-installed package <em class="emph">and</em> to
the old package that used the old symlink. For example, suppose that
after installing Perl into an empty <samp><span class="file">/usr/local</span></samp>, we wish to
install Emacs. Emacs's installation image includes a <samp><span class="file">bin</span></samp>
directory containing the <samp><span class="file">emacs</span></samp> and <samp><span class="file">etags</span></samp> executables,
after installing Perl into an empty <samp class="file">/usr/local</samp>, we wish to
install Emacs. Emacs&rsquo;s installation image includes a <samp class="file">bin</samp>
directory containing the <samp class="file">emacs</samp> and <samp class="file">etags</samp> executables,
among others. Stow must make these files appear to be installed
in <samp><span class="file">/usr/local/bin</span></samp>, but presently <samp><span class="file">/usr/local/bin</span></samp> is a
symlink to <samp><span class="file">stow/perl/bin</span></samp>. Stow therefore takes the
following steps: the symlink <samp><span class="file">/usr/local/bin</span></samp> is deleted; the
directory <samp><span class="file">/usr/local/bin</span></samp> is created; links are made from
<samp><span class="file">/usr/local/bin</span></samp> to <samp><span class="file">../stow/emacs/bin/emacs</span></samp> and
<samp><span class="file">../stow/emacs/bin/etags</span></samp>; and links are made from
<samp><span class="file">/usr/local/bin</span></samp> to <samp><span class="file">../stow/perl/bin/perl</span></samp> and
<samp><span class="file">../stow/perl/bin/a2p</span></samp>.
<h3 class="section">5.3 Ownership</h3>
<p><a name="index-ownership-25"></a>When splitting open a folded tree, Stow makes sure that the
in <samp class="file">/usr/local/bin</samp>, but presently <samp class="file">/usr/local/bin</samp> is a
symlink to <samp class="file">stow/perl/bin</samp>. Stow therefore takes the
following steps: the symlink <samp class="file">/usr/local/bin</samp> is deleted; the
directory <samp class="file">/usr/local/bin</samp> is created; links are made from
<samp class="file">/usr/local/bin</samp> to <samp class="file">../stow/emacs/bin/emacs</samp> and
<samp class="file">../stow/emacs/bin/etags</samp>; and links are made from
<samp class="file">/usr/local/bin</samp> to <samp class="file">../stow/perl/bin/perl</samp> and
<samp class="file">../stow/perl/bin/a2p</samp>.
</p>
</div>
<div class="section-level-extent" id="Ownership">
<h3 class="section"><span>5.3 Ownership<a class="copiable-link" href="#Ownership"> &para;</a></span></h3>
<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-ownership"></a>
<p>When splitting open a folded tree, Stow makes sure that the
symlink it is about to remove points inside a valid package in the
current stow directory. <em>Stow will never delete anything
that it doesn't own</em>. Stow &ldquo;owns&rdquo; everything living in the
current stow directory. <em class="emph">Stow will never delete anything
that it doesn&rsquo;t own</em>. Stow &ldquo;owns&rdquo; everything living in the
target tree that points into a package in the stow directory. Anything
Stow owns, it can recompute if lost: symlinks that point into a package in
the stow directory, or directories that only contain symlinks that stow
&ldquo;owns&rdquo;. Note that by this definition, Stow doesn't &ldquo;own&rdquo; anything
<em>in</em> the stow directory or in any of the packages.
<h3 class="section">5.4 Conflicts during installation</h3>
<p><a name="index-conflicts-26"></a><a name="index-installation-conflicts-27"></a>If Stow needs to create a directory or a symlink in the target
&ldquo;owns&rdquo;. Note that by this definition, Stow doesn&rsquo;t &ldquo;own&rdquo; anything
<em class="emph">in</em> the stow directory or in any of the packages.
</p>
</div>
<div class="section-level-extent" id="Conflicts-during-installation">
<h3 class="section"><span>5.4 Conflicts during installation<a class="copiable-link" href="#Conflicts-during-installation"> &para;</a></span></h3>
<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-conflicts"></a>
<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-installation-conflicts"></a>
<p>If Stow needs to create a directory or a symlink in the target
tree and it cannot because that name is already in use and is not owned
by Stow, then a <dfn>conflict</dfn> has arisen. See <a href="Conflicts.html#Conflicts">Conflicts</a>.
by Stow, then a <em class="dfn">conflict</em> has arisen. See <a class="xref" href="Conflicts.html">Conflicts</a>.
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<h2 class="chapter">1 Introduction</h2>
<p>GNU Stow is a symlink farm manager which takes distinct sets of
software and/or data located in separate directories on the
filesystem, and makes them all appear to be installed in a single
directory tree.
</p>
<p>Originally Stow was born to address the need to administer, upgrade,
install, and remove files in independent software packages without
confusing them with other files sharing the same file system space.
For instance, many years ago it used to be common to compile programs
such as Perl and Emacs from source and install them in
<samp class="file">/usr/local</samp>. When one does so, one winds up with the following
files<a class="footnote" id="DOCF1" href="#FOOT1"><sup>1</sup></a> in
<samp class="file">/usr/local/man/man1</samp>:
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example-preformatted">a2p.1
ctags.1
emacs.1
etags.1
h2ph.1
perl.1
s2p.1
</pre></div>
<p>Stow is a tool for managing the installation of multiple software
packages in the same run-time directory tree. One historical difficulty
of this task has been the need to administer, upgrade, install, and
remove files in independent packages without confusing them with other
files sharing the same file system space. For instance, it is common to
install Perl and Emacs in <samp><span class="file">/usr/local</span></samp>. When one does so, one
winds up with the following files<a rel="footnote" href="#fn-1" name="fnd-1"><sup>1</sup></a> in <samp><span class="file">/usr/local/man/man1</span></samp>:
<pre class="example"> a2p.1
ctags.1
emacs.1
etags.1
h2ph.1
perl.1
s2p.1
</pre>
<p class="noindent">Now suppose it's time to uninstall Perl. Which man pages
get removed? Obviously <samp><span class="file">perl.1</span></samp> is one of them, but it should not
be the administrator's responsibility to memorize the ownership of
<p>Now suppose it&rsquo;s time to uninstall Perl. Which man pages
get removed? Obviously <samp class="file">perl.1</samp> is one of them, but it should not
be the administrator&rsquo;s responsibility to memorize the ownership of
individual files by separate packages.
<p>The approach used by Stow is to install each package into its own
</p>
<p>The approach used by Stow is to install each package into its own
tree, then use symbolic links to make it appear as though the files are
installed in the common tree. Administration can be performed in the
package's private tree in isolation from clutter from other packages.
package&rsquo;s private tree in isolation from clutter from other packages.
Stow can then be used to update the symbolic links. The structure
of each private tree should reflect the desired structure in the common
tree; i.e. (in the typical case) there should be a <samp><span class="file">bin</span></samp> directory
containing executables, a <samp><span class="file">man/man1</span></samp> directory containing section 1
tree; i.e. (in the typical case) there should be a <samp class="file">bin</samp> directory
containing executables, a <samp class="file">man/man1</samp> directory containing section 1
man pages, and so on.
</p>
<p>While this is useful for keeping track of system-wide and per-user
installations of software built from source, in more recent times
software packages are often managed by more sophisticated package
management software such as
<a class="uref" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rpm_(software)"><code class="command">rpm</code></a>,
<a class="uref" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dpkg"><code class="command">dpkg</code></a>, and
<a class="uref" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_package_manager">Nix</a> /
<a class="uref" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Guix">GNU Guix</a>, or
language-native package managers such as
<a class="uref" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RubyGems">Ruby&rsquo;s <code class="command">gem</code></a>,
<a class="uref" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pip_(package_manager)">Python&rsquo;s
<code class="command">pip</code></a>, <a class="uref" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npm_(software)">Javascript&rsquo;s <code class="command">npm</code></a>, and so on.
</p>
<p>However Stow is still used not only for software package management,
but also for other purposes, such as facilitating a more controlled
approach to management of configuration files in the user&rsquo;s home
directory<a class="footnote" id="DOCF2" href="#FOOT2"><sup>2</sup></a>,
especially when coupled with version control
systems<a class="footnote" id="DOCF3" href="#FOOT3"><sup>3</sup></a>.
</p>
<p>Stow was inspired by Carnegie Mellon&rsquo;s Depot program, but is
substantially simpler and safer. Whereas Depot required database
files to keep things in sync, Stow stores no extra state between runs,
so there&rsquo;s no danger (as there was in Depot) of mangling directories
when file hierarchies don&rsquo;t match the database. Also unlike Depot,
Stow will never delete any files, directories, or links that appear in
a Stow directory (e.g., <samp class="file">/usr/local/stow/emacs</samp>), so it&rsquo;s always
possible to rebuild the target tree (e.g., <samp class="file">/usr/local</samp>).
</p>
<p>Stow is implemented as a combination of a Perl script providing a CLI
interface, and a backend Perl module which does most of the work.
</p>
<p>For information about the latest version of Stow, you can refer to
<a class="uref" href="http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/">http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/</a>.
</p>
<p>Stow was inspired by Carnegie Mellon's Depot program, but is
substantially simpler and safer. Whereas Depot required database files
to keep things in sync, Stow stores no extra state between runs, so
there's no danger (as there was 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., <samp><span class="file">/usr/local/stow/emacs</span></samp>), so it's always possible
to rebuild the target tree (e.g., <samp><span class="file">/usr/local</span></samp>).
<p>For information about the latest version of Stow, you can refer to
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/">http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/</a>.
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<h4>Footnotes</h4><p class="footnote"><small>[<a name="fn-1" href="#fnd-1">1</a>]</small> As of Perl 4.036 and Emacs
19.22.</p>
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<h5 class="footnote-body-heading"><a id="FOOT1" href="#DOCF1">(1)</a></h5>
<p>As of Perl 4.036 and Emacs 19.22. These are now
ancient releases but the example still holds valid.</p>
<h5 class="footnote-body-heading"><a id="FOOT2" href="#DOCF2">(2)</a></h5>
<p><a class="uref" href="http://brandon.invergo.net/news/2012-05-26-using-gnu-stow-to-manage-your-dotfiles.html">http://brandon.invergo.net/news/2012-05-26-using-gnu-stow-to-manage-your-dotfiles.html</a></p>
<h5 class="footnote-body-heading"><a id="FOOT3" href="#DOCF3">(3)</a></h5>
<p><a class="uref" href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-stow/2011-12/msg00000.html">http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-stow/2011-12/msg00000.html</a></p>
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<h2 class="chapter">3 Invoking Stow</h2>
<p>The syntax of the <code class="command">stow</code> command is:
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example-preformatted">stow [<var class="var">options</var>] [<var class="var">action flag</var>] <var class="var">package ...</var>
</pre></div>
<p>The syntax of the <samp><span class="command">stow</span></samp> command is:
<pre class="example"> stow [<var>options</var>] [<var>action flag</var>] <var>package <small class="dots">...</small></var>
</pre>
<p class="noindent">Each <var>package</var> is the name of a package (e.g., &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">perl</span></samp>&rsquo;) in the stow
directory that we wish to install into (or delete from) the target directory.
<p>Each <var class="var">package</var> is the name of a package (e.g., &lsquo;<samp class="samp">perl</samp>&rsquo;) in the stow
directory that we wish to install into (or delete from) the target directory.
The default action is to install the given packages, although alternate actions
may be specified by preceding the package name(s) with an <var>action flag</var>.
<p class="noindent">The following options are supported:
<dl>
<dt>&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">-d </span><var>dir</var></samp>&rsquo;<dt>&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">--dir=</span><var>dir</var></samp>&rsquo;<dd>Set the stow directory to <var>dir</var>. Defaults to the value of the environment
variable <samp><span class="env">STOW_DIR</span></samp> if set, or the current directory otherwise.
<br><dt>&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">-t </span><var>dir</var></samp>&rsquo;<dt>&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">--target=</span><var>dir</var></samp>&rsquo;<dd>Set the target directory to <var>dir</var> instead of the parent of the stow
may be specified by preceding the package name(s) with an <var class="var">action flag</var>.
</p>
<p>The following options are supported:
</p>
<dl class="table">
<dt>&lsquo;<samp class="samp">-d <var class="var">dir</var></samp>&rsquo;</dt>
<dt>&lsquo;<samp class="samp">--dir=<var class="var">dir</var></samp>&rsquo;</dt>
<dd><p>Set the stow directory to <var class="var">dir</var>. Defaults to the value of the environment
variable <code class="env">STOW_DIR</code> if set, or the current directory otherwise.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>&lsquo;<samp class="samp">-t <var class="var">dir</var></samp>&rsquo;</dt>
<dt>&lsquo;<samp class="samp">--target=<var class="var">dir</var></samp>&rsquo;</dt>
<dd><p>Set the target directory to <var class="var">dir</var> instead of the parent of the stow
directory. Defaults to the parent of the stow directory, so it is typical to
execute <samp><span class="command">stow</span></samp> from the directory <samp><span class="file">/usr/local/stow</span></samp>.
execute <code class="command">stow</code> from the directory <samp class="file">/usr/local/stow</samp>.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>&lsquo;<samp class="samp">--ignore=<var class="var">regexp</var></samp>&rsquo;</dt>
<dd><p>This (repeatable) option lets you suppress acting on files that match the
given Perl regular expression. For example, using the options
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example-preformatted">--ignore='.*\.orig' --ignore='.*\.dist'
</pre></div>
<br><dt>&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">--ignore=</span><var>regexp</var></samp>&rsquo;<dd>This (repeatable) option lets you suppress acting on files that match the
given perl regular expression. For example, using the options
<pre class="example"> --ignore='*.orig' --ignore='*.dist'
</pre>
<p class="noindent">will cause stow to ignore files ending in <samp><span class="file">.orig</span></samp> or <samp><span class="file">.dist</span></samp>.
<p>Note that the regular expression is anchored to the end of the filename,
<p>will cause stow to ignore files ending in <samp class="file">.orig</samp> or <samp class="file">.dist</samp>.
</p>
<p>Note that the regular expression is anchored to the end of the filename,
because this is what you will want to do most of the time.
<p>Also note that by default Stow automatically ignores a &ldquo;sensible&rdquo;
built-in list of files and directories such as <samp><span class="file">CVS</span></samp>, editor
backup files, and so on. See <a href="Ignore-Lists.html#Ignore-Lists">Ignore Lists</a>, for more details.
<br><dt>&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">--defer=</span><var>regexp</var></samp>&rsquo;<dd>This (repeatable) option avoids stowing a file matching the given
regular expression, if that file is already stowed by another package.
This is effectively the opposite of <samp><span class="option">--override</span></samp>.
<p>(N.B. the name <samp><span class="option">--defer</span></samp> was chosen in the sense that the package
</p>
<p>Also note that by default Stow automatically ignores a &ldquo;sensible&rdquo;
built-in list of files and directories such as <samp class="file">CVS</samp>, editor
backup files, and so on. See <a class="xref" href="Ignore-Lists.html">Ignore Lists</a>, for more details.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>&lsquo;<samp class="samp">--defer=<var class="var">regexp</var></samp>&rsquo;</dt>
<dd><p>This (repeatable) option avoids stowing a file matching the given
regular expression, if that file is already stowed by another package.
This is effectively the opposite of <samp class="option">--override</samp>.
</p>
<p>(N.B. the name <samp class="option">--defer</samp> was chosen in the sense that the package
currently being stowed is treated with lower precedence than any
already installed package, not in the sense that the operation is
being postponed to be run at a later point in time; do not confuse
this nomenclature with the wording used in <a href="Deferred-Operation.html#Deferred-Operation">Deferred Operation</a>.)
this nomenclature with the wording used in <a class="ref" href="Conflicts.html#Deferred-Operation">Deferred Operation</a>.)
</p>
<p>For example, the following options
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example-preformatted">--defer=man --defer=info
</pre></div>
<p>For example, the following options
<pre class="example"> --defer=man --defer=info
</pre>
<p class="noindent">will cause stow to skip over pre-existing man and info pages.
<p>Equivalently, you could use &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">--defer='man|info'</span></samp>&rsquo; since the
argument is just a Perl regex.
<p>Note that the regular expression is anchored to the beginning of the path
<p>will cause stow to skip over pre-existing man and info pages.
</p>
<p>Equivalently, you could use &lsquo;<samp class="samp">--defer='man|info'</samp>&rsquo; since the
argument is just a Perl regular expression.
</p>
<p>Note that the regular expression is anchored to the beginning of the path
relative to the target directory, because this is what you will want to do most
of the time.
<br><dt>&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">--override=</span><var>regexp</var></samp>&rsquo;<dd>This (repeatable) option forces any file matching the regular expression to be
</p>
</dd>
<dt>&lsquo;<samp class="samp">--override=<var class="var">regexp</var></samp>&rsquo;</dt>
<dd><p>This (repeatable) option forces any file matching the regular expression to be
stowed, even if the file is already stowed to another package. For example,
the following options
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example-preformatted">--override=man --override=info
</pre></div>
<pre class="example"> --override=man --override=info
</pre>
<p class="noindent">will permit stow to overwrite links that point to pre-existing man and info
<p>will permit stow to overwrite links that point to pre-existing man and info
pages that are owned by stow and would otherwise cause a conflict.
<p>The regular expression is anchored to the beginning of the path relative to
</p>
<p>The regular expression is anchored to the beginning of the path relative to
the target directory, because this is what you will want to do most of the time.
<br><dt>&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">--no-folding</span></samp>&rsquo;<dd>
This disables any further <a href="tree-folding.html#tree-folding">tree folding</a> or <a href="tree-refolding.html#tree-refolding">tree refolding</a>.
If a new subdirectory is encountered whilst stowing a new package, the
subdirectory is created within the target, and its contents are
symlinked, rather than just creating a symlink for the directory. If
removal of symlinks whilst unstowing a package causes a subtree to be
foldable (i.e. only containing symlinks to a single package), that
subtree will not be removed and replaced with a symlink.
<p><a name="index-adopting-existing-files-10"></a><br><dt>&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">--adopt</span></samp>&rsquo;<dd><strong>Warning!</strong> This behaviour is specifically intended to alter the
</p>
</dd>
<dt><a id="index-dotfiles"></a><span>&lsquo;<samp class="samp">--dotfiles</samp>&rsquo;<a class="copiable-link" href="#index-dotfiles"> &para;</a></span></dt>
<dd>
<p>Enable special handling for <em class="emph">dotfiles</em> (files or folders whose
name begins with a period) in the package directory. If this option is
enabled, Stow will add a preprocessing step for each file or folder
whose name begins with &lsquo;<samp class="samp">dot-</samp>&rsquo;, and replace the &lsquo;<samp class="samp">dot-</samp>&rsquo; prefix
in the name by a period &lsquo;<samp class="samp">.</samp>&rsquo;. This is useful when Stow is used to
manage collections of dotfiles, to avoid having a package directory
full of hidden files.
</p>
<p>For example, suppose we have a package containing two files,
<samp class="file">stow/dot-bashrc</samp> and <samp class="file">stow/dot-emacs.d/init.el</samp>. With this
option, Stow will create symlinks from <samp class="file">.bashrc</samp> to
<samp class="file">stow/dot-bashrc</samp> and from <samp class="file">.emacs.d/init.el</samp> to
<samp class="file">stow/dot-emacs.d/init.el</samp>. Any other files, whose name does not
begin with &lsquo;<samp class="samp">dot-</samp>&rsquo;, will be processed as usual.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>&lsquo;<samp class="samp">--no-folding</samp>&rsquo;</dt>
<dd>
<p>This disables any further tree folding (see <a class="pxref" href="Installing-Packages.html#tree-folding">tree folding</a>) or
refolding (see <a class="pxref" href="Deleting-Packages.html#tree-refolding">tree refolding</a>). If a new subdirectory is
encountered whilst stowing a new package, the subdirectory is created
within the target, and its contents are symlinked, rather than just
creating a symlink for the directory. If removal of symlinks whilst
unstowing a package causes a subtree to be foldable (i.e. only
containing symlinks to a single package), that subtree will not be
removed and replaced with a symlink.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><a id="index-adopting-existing-files"></a><span>&lsquo;<samp class="samp">--adopt</samp>&rsquo;<a class="copiable-link" href="#index-adopting-existing-files"> &para;</a></span></dt>
<dd><p><strong class="strong">Warning!</strong> This behaviour is specifically intended to alter the
contents of your stow directory. If you do not want that, this option
is not for you.
<p>When stowing, if a target is encountered which already exists but is a
</p>
<p>When stowing, if a target is encountered which already exists but is a
plain file (and hence not owned by any existing stow package), then
normally Stow will register this as a conflict and refuse to proceed.
normally Stow will register this as a conflict and refuse to proceed.
This option changes that behaviour so that the file is moved to the
same relative place within the package's installation image within the
same relative place within the package&rsquo;s installation image within the
stow directory, and then stowing proceeds as before. So effectively,
the file becomes adopted by the stow package, without its contents
changing.
<p>This is particularly useful when the stow package is under the control
</p>
<p>This is particularly useful when the stow package is under the control
of a version control system, because it allows files in the target
tree, with potentially different contents to the equivalent versions
in the stow package's installation image, to be adopted into the
package, then compared by running something like &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">git diff ...</span></samp>&rsquo;
inside the stow package, and finally either kept (e.g. via &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">git
commit ...</span></samp>&rsquo;) or discarded (&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">git checkout HEAD ...</span></samp>&rsquo;).
<p><a name="index-dry-run-11"></a><a name="index-simulated-run-12"></a><br><dt>&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">-n</span></samp>&rsquo;<dt>&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">--no</span></samp>&rsquo;<dt>&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">--simulate</span></samp>&rsquo;<dd>Do not perform any operations that modify the file system; in combination with
<samp><span class="option">-v</span></samp> can be used to merely show what would happen.
<p><a name="index-verbosity-levels-13"></a><br><dt>&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">-v</span></samp>&rsquo;<dt>&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">--verbose[=</span><var>n</var><span class="samp">]</span></samp>&rsquo;<dd>Send verbose output to standard error describing what Stow is
doing. Verbosity levels are 0, 1, 2, and 3; 0 is the default. Using
<samp><span class="option">-v</span></samp> or <samp><span class="option">--verbose</span></samp> increases the verbosity by one; using
&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">--verbose=</span><var>n</var></samp>&rsquo; sets it to <var>n</var>.
<br><dt>&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">-p</span></samp>&rsquo;<dt>&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">--compat</span></samp>&rsquo;<dd>Scan the whole target tree when unstowing. By default, only
directories specified in the <dfn>installation image</dfn> are scanned
in the stow package&rsquo;s installation image, to be adopted into the
package, then compared by running something like &lsquo;<samp class="samp">git diff ...</samp>&rsquo;
inside the stow package, and finally either kept (e.g. via &lsquo;<samp class="samp">git
commit ...</samp>&rsquo;) or discarded (&lsquo;<samp class="samp">git checkout HEAD ...</samp>&rsquo;).
</p>
</dd>
<dt><a class="index-entry-id" id="index-simulated-run"></a>
<a id="index-dry-run"></a><span>&lsquo;<samp class="samp">-n</samp>&rsquo;<a class="copiable-link" href="#index-dry-run"> &para;</a></span></dt>
<dt>&lsquo;<samp class="samp">--no</samp>&rsquo;</dt>
<dt>&lsquo;<samp class="samp">--simulate</samp>&rsquo;</dt>
<dd><p>Do not perform any operations that modify the file system; in combination with
<samp class="option">-v</samp> can be used to merely show what would happen.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><a id="index-verbosity-levels"></a><span>&lsquo;<samp class="samp">-v</samp>&rsquo;<a class="copiable-link" href="#index-verbosity-levels"> &para;</a></span></dt>
<dt>&lsquo;<samp class="samp">--verbose[=<var class="var">n</var>]</samp>&rsquo;</dt>
<dd><p>Send verbose output to standard error describing what Stow is
doing. Verbosity levels are from 0 to 5; 0 is the default. Using
<samp class="option">-v</samp> or <samp class="option">--verbose</samp> increases the verbosity by one; using
&lsquo;<samp class="samp">--verbose=<var class="var">n</var></samp>&rsquo; sets it to <var class="var">n</var>.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>&lsquo;<samp class="samp">-p</samp>&rsquo;</dt>
<dt>&lsquo;<samp class="samp">--compat</samp>&rsquo;</dt>
<dd><p>Scan the whole target tree when unstowing. By default, only
directories specified in the <em class="dfn">installation image</em> are scanned
during an unstow operation. Scanning the whole tree can be
prohibitive if your target tree is very large. This option restores
the legacy behaviour; however, the <samp><span class="option">--badlinks</span></samp> option to the
<samp><span class="command">chkstow</span></samp> utility may be a better way of ensuring that your
installation does not have any dangling symlinks (see <a href="Target-Maintenance.html#Target-Maintenance">Target Maintenance</a>).
<br><dt>&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">-V</span></samp>&rsquo;<dt>&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">--version</span></samp>&rsquo;<dd>Show Stow version number, and exit.
<br><dt>&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">-h</span></samp>&rsquo;<dt>&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">--help</span></samp>&rsquo;<dd>Show Stow command syntax, and exit.
the legacy behaviour; however, the <samp class="option">--badlinks</samp> option to the
<code class="command">chkstow</code> utility may be a better way of ensuring that your
installation does not have any dangling symlinks (see <a class="pxref" href="Target-Maintenance.html">Target Maintenance</a>).
</p>
</dd>
<dt>&lsquo;<samp class="samp">-V</samp>&rsquo;</dt>
<dt>&lsquo;<samp class="samp">--version</samp>&rsquo;</dt>
<dd><p>Show Stow version number, and exit.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>&lsquo;<samp class="samp">-h</samp>&rsquo;</dt>
<dt>&lsquo;<samp class="samp">--help</samp>&rsquo;</dt>
<dd><p>Show Stow command syntax, and exit.
</p></dd>
</dl>
<p>The following <var>action flags</var> are supported:
<dl>
<dt>&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">-D</span></samp>&rsquo;<dt>&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">--delete</span></samp>&rsquo;<dd>Delete (unstow) the package name(s) that follow this option from the <dfn>target
directory</dfn>. This option may be repeated any number of times.
<br><dt>&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">-R</span></samp>&rsquo;<dt>&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">--restow</span></samp>&rsquo;<dd>Restow (first unstow, then stow again) the package names that follow this
<p>The following <var class="var">action flags</var> are supported:
</p>
<dl class="table">
<dt>&lsquo;<samp class="samp">-D</samp>&rsquo;</dt>
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directory</em>. This option may be repeated any number of times.
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option. This is useful for pruning obsolete symlinks from the target tree
after updating the software in a package. This option may be repeated any
number of times.
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omitted if you are not using the <samp><span class="option">-D</span></samp> or <samp><span class="option">-R</span></samp> options in the
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omitted if you are not using the <samp class="option">-D</samp> or <samp class="option">-R</samp> options in the
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<p>The reader may note that this format is very similar to existing
ignore list file formats, such as those for <samp><span class="command">cvs</span></samp>, <samp><span class="command">git</span></samp>,
<samp><span class="command">rsync</span></samp> etc., and wonder if another set of ignore lists is
ignore list file formats, such as those for <code class="command">cvs</code>, <code class="command">git</code>,
<code class="command">rsync</code> etc., and wonder if another set of ignore lists is
justified. However there are good reasons why Stow does not simply
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check for the presence of say, <samp class="file">.cvsignore</samp>, and use that if it
exists. Firstly, there is no guarantee that a stow package would
contain any version control meta-data, or permit introducing this if
it didn't already exist.
<p>Secondly even if it did, version control system ignore lists generally
reflect <em>build-time</em> ignores rather than <em>install-time</em>, and
it didn&rsquo;t already exist.
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<p>Secondly even if it did, version control system ignore lists generally
reflect <em class="emph">build-time</em> ignores rather than <em class="emph">install-time</em>, and
there may be some intermediate or temporary files on those ignore
lists generated during development or at build-time which it would be
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<p>Therefore it seems clear that ignore lists provided by version control
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<p><a name="index-mixing-operations-33"></a>
Since version 2.0, multiple distinct actions can be specified in a single
<p>Since version 2.0, multiple distinct actions can be specified in a single
invocation of GNU Stow. For example, to update an installation of Emacs from
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<p><a name="index-deferred-operation-34"></a>This is much faster and cleaner than performing two separate
<p>which will replace emacs-21.3 with emacs-21.4a using a single invocation.
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can be factored out. In addition, all the operations are calculated
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and merged before being executed (see <a class="pxref" href="Conflicts.html#Deferred-Operation">Deferred Operation</a>), so the
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<p>In many situations, there will exist files under the package
directories which it would be undesirable to stow into the target
directory. For example, files related version control such as
<samp><span class="file">.gitignore</span></samp>, <samp><span class="file">CVS</span></samp>, <samp><span class="file">*,v</span></samp> (RCS files) should typically
<samp class="file">.gitignore</samp>, <samp class="file">CVS</samp>, <samp class="file">*,v</samp> (RCS files) should typically
not have symlinks from the target tree pointing to them. Also there
may be files or directories relating to the build of the package which
are not needed at run-time.
<p>In these cases, it can be rather cumbersome to specify a
<samp><span class="option">--ignore</span></samp> parameter for each file or directory to be ignored.
</p>
<p>In these cases, it can be rather cumbersome to specify a
<samp class="option">--ignore</samp> parameter for each file or directory to be ignored.
This could be worked around by ensuring the existence of
<samp><span class="file">~/.stowrc</span></samp> containing multiple <samp><span class="option">--ignore</span></samp> lines, or if a
<samp class="file">~/.stowrc</samp> containing multiple <samp class="option">--ignore</samp> lines, or if a
different set of files/directories should be ignored depending on
which stow package is involved, a <samp><span class="file">.stowrc</span></samp> file for each stow
which stow package is involved, a <samp class="file">.stowrc</samp> file for each stow
package, but this would require the user to ensure that they were in
the correct directory before invoking stow, which would be tedious and
error-prone. Furthermore, since Stow shifts parameters from
<samp><span class="file">.stowrc</span></samp> onto ARGV at run-time, it could clutter up the process
<samp class="file">.stowrc</samp> onto ARGV at run-time, it could clutter up the process
table with excessively long parameter lists, or even worse, exceed the
operating system's limit for process arguments.
<p><a name="index-ignore-lists-16"></a>Therefore in addition to <samp><span class="option">--ignore</span></samp> parameters, Stow provides a
operating system&rsquo;s limit for process arguments.
</p>
<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-ignore-lists-1"></a>
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way to specify lists of files and directories to ignore.
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<p>If there are two or more system administrators who wish to maintain
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stow directories, it can be done by creating a file named <samp><span class="file">.stow</span></samp>
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stow directories, it can be done by creating a file named <samp class="file">.stow</samp>
in each stow directory. The presence of <samp class="file">/usr/local/foo/.stow</samp>
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<p>The Free Software Foundation, the organization behind the GNU project,
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now respond well to these simple steps, with no other intervention
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<p>Hopefully, these tools can evolve to be aware of Stow-managed packages,
such that providing an option to &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">configure</span></samp>&rsquo; can allow &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">make</span></samp>&rsquo;
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<p>Hopefully, these tools can evolve to be aware of Stow-managed packages,
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<h3 class="section" id="Perl-and-Perl-5-Modules-1"><span>12.5 Perl and Perl 5 Modules<a class="copiable-link" href="#Perl-and-Perl-5-Modules-1"> &para;</a></span></h3>
<p>Perl 4.036 allows you to specify different locations for installation
and for run-time. It is the only widely-used package in this author's
and for run-time. It is the only widely-used package in this author&rsquo;s
experience that allows this, though hopefully more packages will adopt
this model.
<p>Unfortunately, the authors of Perl believed that only AFS sites need
</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the authors of Perl believed that only AFS sites need
this ability. The configuration instructions for Perl 4 misleadingly
state that some occult means are used under AFS to transport files from
their installation tree to their run-time tree. In fact, that confusion
arises from the fact that Depot, Stow's predecessor, originated at
Carnegie Mellon University, which was also the birthplace of AFS. CMU's
arises from the fact that Depot, Stow&rsquo;s predecessor, originated at
Carnegie Mellon University, which was also the birthplace of AFS. CMU&rsquo;s
need to separate install-time and run-time trees stemmed from its use of
Depot, not from AFS.
<p>The result of this confusion is that Perl 5's configuration script
doesn't even offer the option of separating install-time and run-time
trees <em>unless</em> you're running AFS. Fortunately, after you've
entered all the configuration settings, Perl's setup script gives you
</p>
<p>The result of this confusion is that Perl 5&rsquo;s configuration script
doesn&rsquo;t even offer the option of separating install-time and run-time
trees <em class="emph">unless</em> you&rsquo;re running AFS. Fortunately, after you&rsquo;ve
entered all the configuration settings, Perl&rsquo;s setup script gives you
the opportunity to edit those settings in a file called
<samp><span class="file">config.sh</span></samp>. When prompted, you should edit this file and replace
<samp class="file">config.sh</samp>. When prompted, you should edit this file and replace
occurrences of
</p>
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<pre class="example-preformatted">inst<span class="r">...</span>/usr/local<span class="r">...</span>
</pre></div>
<pre class="example"> inst<span class="roman">...</span>/usr/local<span class="roman">...</span>
</pre>
<p class="noindent">with
<p>with
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example-preformatted">inst<span class="r">...</span>/usr/local/stow/perl<span class="r">...</span>
</pre></div>
<pre class="example"> inst<span class="roman">...</span>/usr/local/stow/perl<span class="roman">...</span>
</pre>
<p class="noindent">You can do this with the following Unix command:
<p>You can do this with the following Unix command:
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example-preformatted">sed 's,^\(inst.*/usr/local\),\1/stow/perl,' config.sh &gt; config.sh.new
mv config.sh.new config.sh
</pre></div>
<pre class="example"> sed 's,^\(inst.*/usr/local\),\1/stow/perl,' config.sh &gt; config.sh.new
mv config.sh.new config.sh
</pre>
<p>Hopefully, the Perl authors will correct this deficiency in Perl 5's
<p>Hopefully, the Perl authors will correct this deficiency in Perl 5&rsquo;s
configuration mechanism.
<p>Perl 5 modules&mdash;i.e., extensions to Perl 5&mdash;generally conform to a set
</p>
<p>Perl 5 modules&mdash;i.e., extensions to Perl 5&mdash;generally conform to a set
of standards for building and installing them. The standard says that
the package comes with a top-level <samp><span class="file">Makefile.PL</span></samp>, which is a Perl
script. When it runs, it generates a <samp><span class="file">Makefile</span></samp>.
<p>If you followed the instructions above for editing <samp><span class="file">config.sh</span></samp> when
Perl was built, then when you create a <samp><span class="file">Makefile</span></samp> from a
<samp><span class="file">Makefile.PL</span></samp>, it will contain separate locations for run-time
(<samp><span class="file">/usr/local</span></samp>) and install-time (<samp><span class="file">/usr/local/stow/perl</span></samp>).
the package comes with a top-level <samp class="file">Makefile.PL</samp>, which is a Perl
script. When it runs, it generates a <samp class="file">Makefile</samp>.
</p>
<p>If you followed the instructions above for editing <samp class="file">config.sh</samp> when
Perl was built, then when you create a <samp class="file">Makefile</samp> from a
<samp class="file">Makefile.PL</samp>, it will contain separate locations for run-time
(<samp class="file">/usr/local</samp>) and install-time (<samp class="file">/usr/local/stow/perl</samp>).
Thus you can do
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example-preformatted">perl Makefile.PL
make
make install
</pre></div>
<pre class="example"> perl Makefile.PL
make
make install
</pre>
<p class="noindent">and the files will be installed into <samp><span class="file">/usr/local/stow/perl</span></samp>.
<p>and the files will be installed into <samp class="file">/usr/local/stow/perl</samp>.
However, you might prefer each Perl module to be stowed separately. In
that case, you must edit the resulting Makefile, replacing
<samp><span class="file">/usr/local/stow/perl</span></samp> with <samp><span class="file">/usr/local/stow/</span><var>module</var></samp>.
<samp class="file">/usr/local/stow/perl</samp> with <samp class="file">/usr/local/stow/<var class="var">module</var></samp>.
The best way to do this is:
</p>
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find . -name Makefile -print | \
xargs perl -pi~ -e 's,^(INST.*/stow)/perl,$1/<var class="var">module</var>,;'
make
make install
</pre></div>
<pre class="example"> perl Makefile.PL
find . -name Makefile -print | \
xargs perl -pi~ -e 's,^(INST.*/stow)/perl,$1/<var>module</var>,;'
make
make install
</pre>
<p class="noindent">(The use of &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">find</span></samp>&rsquo; and &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">xargs</span></samp>&rsquo; ensures that all Makefiles in
the module's source tree, even those in subdirectories, get edited.) A
<p>(The use of &lsquo;<samp class="samp">find</samp>&rsquo; and &lsquo;<samp class="samp">xargs</samp>&rsquo; ensures that all Makefiles in
the module&rsquo;s source tree, even those in subdirectories, get edited.) A
good convention to follow is to name the stow directory for a Perl
<var>module</var> <samp><span class="file">cpan.</span><var>module</var></samp>, where &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">cpan</span></samp>&rsquo; stands for
<var class="var">module</var> <samp class="file">cpan.<var class="var">module</var></samp>, where &lsquo;<samp class="samp">cpan</samp>&rsquo; stands for
Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, a collection of FTP sites that is
the source of most Perl 5 extensions. This way, it's easy to tell at a
glance which of the subdirectories of <samp><span class="file">/usr/local/stow</span></samp> are Perl 5
the source of most Perl 5 extensions. This way, it&rsquo;s easy to tell at a
glance which of the subdirectories of <samp class="file">/usr/local/stow</samp> are Perl 5
extensions.
<p>When you stow separate Perl 5 modules separately, you are likely to
encounter conflicts (see <a href="Conflicts.html#Conflicts">Conflicts</a>) with files named <samp><span class="file">.exists</span></samp>
and <samp><span class="file">perllocal.pod</span></samp>. One way to work around this is to remove
</p>
<p>When you stow separate Perl 5 modules separately, you are likely to
encounter conflicts (see <a class="pxref" href="Conflicts.html">Conflicts</a>) with files named <samp class="file">.exists</samp>
and <samp class="file">perllocal.pod</samp>. One way to work around this is to remove
those files before stowing the module. If you use the
<samp><span class="file">cpan.</span><var>module</var></samp> naming convention, you can simply do this:
<samp class="file">cpan.<var class="var">module</var></samp> naming convention, you can simply do this:
</p>
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find cpan.* \( -name .exists -o -name perllocal.pod \) -print | \
xargs rm
</pre></div>
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<p>Please send bug reports to the current maintainers by electronic
mail. The address to use is &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">&lt;bug-stow@gnu.org&gt;</span></samp>&rsquo;. Please
mail. The address to use is &lsquo;<samp class="samp">&lt;bug-stow@gnu.org&gt;</samp>&rsquo;. Please
include:
</p>
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<li>the version number of Stow (&lsquo;<samp class="samp">stow --version</samp>&rsquo;);
<ul>
<li>the version number of Stow (&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">stow --version</span></samp>&rsquo;);
</li><li>the version number of Perl (&lsquo;<samp class="samp">perl -v</samp>&rsquo;);
<li>the version number of Perl (&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">perl -v</span></samp>&rsquo;);
</li><li>the system information, which can often be obtained with &lsquo;<samp class="samp">uname
-a</samp>&rsquo;;
<li>the system information, which can often be obtained with &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">uname
-a</span></samp>&rsquo;;
</li><li>a description of the bug;
<li>a description of the bug;
</li><li>the precise command you gave;
<li>the precise command you gave;
</li><li>the output from the command (preferably verbose output, obtained by
adding &lsquo;<samp class="samp">--verbose=3</samp>&rsquo; to the Stow command line).
</li></ul>
<li>the output from the command (preferably verbose output, obtained by
adding &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">--verbose=3</span></samp>&rsquo; to the Stow command line).
</ul>
<p>If you are really keen, consider developing a minimal test case and
creating a new test. See the <samp><span class="file">t/</span></samp> directory in the source for
<p>If you are really keen, consider developing a minimal test case and
creating a new test. See the <samp class="file">t/</samp> directory in the source for
lots of examples.
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something that doesn&rsquo;t need reporting.
(see <a class="pxref" href="Conflicts.html">Conflicts</a>).
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<h2 class="chapter">11 Resource Files</h2>
<p><a name="index-resource-files-36"></a><a name="index-configuration-files-37"></a>
Default command line options may be set in <samp><span class="file">.stowrc</span></samp> (current directory) or
<samp><span class="file">~/.stowrc</span></samp> (home directory). These are parsed in that order, and effectively
prepended to you command line. This feature can be used for some interesting
effects.
<p>For example, suppose your site uses more than one stow directory, perhaps in
<p>Default command line options may be set in <samp class="file">.stowrc</samp> (current
directory) or <samp class="file">~/.stowrc</samp> (home directory). These are parsed in
that order, and are appended together if they both exist. The effect of
the options in the resource file is similar to simply prepending the
options to the command line. This feature can be used for some
interesting effects.
</p>
<p>For example, suppose your site uses more than one stow directory, perhaps in
order to share around responsibilities with a number of systems
administrators. One of the administrators might have the following in their
<samp><span class="file">~/.stowrc</span></samp> file:
<samp class="file">~/.stowrc</samp> file:
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example-preformatted">--dir=/usr/local/stow2
--target=/usr/local
--ignore='~'
--ignore='^CVS'
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<pre class="example"> --dir=/usr/local/stow2
--target=/usr/local
--ignore='~'
--ignore='^CVS'
</pre>
<p>so that the <samp><span class="command">stow</span></samp> command will default to operating on the
<samp><span class="file">/usr/local/stow2</span></samp> directory, with <samp><span class="file">/usr/local</span></samp> as the
<p>so that the <code class="command">stow</code> command will default to operating on the
<samp class="file">/usr/local/stow2</samp> directory, with <samp class="file">/usr/local</samp> as the
target, and ignoring vi backup files and CVS directories.
<p>If you had a stow directory <samp><span class="file">/usr/local/stow/perl-extras</span></samp> that
</p>
<p>If you had a stow directory <samp class="file">/usr/local/stow/perl-extras</samp> that
was only used for Perl modules, then you might place the following in
<samp><span class="file">/usr/local/stow/perl-extras/.stowrc</span></samp>:
<samp class="file">/usr/local/stow/perl-extras/.stowrc</samp>:
</p>
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<pre class="example-preformatted">--dir=/usr/local/stow/perl-extras
--target=/usr/local
--override=bin
--override=man
--ignore='perllocal\.pod'
--ignore='\.packlist'
--ignore='\.bs'
</pre></div>
<pre class="example"> --dir=/usr/local/stow/perl-extras
--target=/usr/local
--override=bin
--override=man
--ignore='perllocal\.pod'
--ignore='\.packlist'
--ignore='\.bs'
</pre>
<p>so that when you are in the <samp><span class="file">/usr/local/stow/perl-extras</span></samp>
directory, <samp><span class="command">stow</span></samp> will regard any subdirectories as stow
packages, with <samp><span class="file">/usr/local</span></samp> as the target (rather than the
immediate parent directory <samp><span class="file">/usr/local/stow</span></samp>), overriding any
<p>so that when you are in the <samp class="file">/usr/local/stow/perl-extras</samp>
directory, <code class="command">stow</code> will regard any subdirectories as stow
packages, with <samp class="file">/usr/local</samp> as the target (rather than the
immediate parent directory <samp class="file">/usr/local/stow</samp>), overriding any
pre-existing links to bin files or man pages, and ignoring some cruft
that gets installed by default.
</p>
<p>If an option is provided both on the command line and in a resource file,
the command line option takes precedence. For options that provide a single
value, such as <code class="command">--target</code> or <code class="command">--dir</code>, the command line
option will overwrite any options in the resource file. For options that can
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options and resource options are appended together.
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<p>For options that take a file path, environment variables and the tilde
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prevent expansion, escape the <code class="command">$</code> or <code class="command">~</code> with a
backslash.
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resource files. This is also true of any package names given in the
resource file.
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<h2 class="chapter">10 Target Maintenance</h2>
<p><a name="index-maintenance-35"></a>From time to time you will need to clean up your target tree. Since
version 2, Stow provides a new utility <samp><span class="command">chkstow</span></samp> to help with
<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-maintenance"></a>
<p>From time to time you will need to clean up your target tree. Since
version 2, Stow provides a new utility <code class="command">chkstow</code> to help with
this. It includes three operational modes which performs checks that
would generally be too expensive to be performed during normal stow
execution.
</p>
<p>The syntax of the <code class="command">chkstow</code> command is:
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<pre class="example"> chkstow [<var>options</var>]
</pre>
<p class="noindent">The following options are supported:
<dl>
<dt>&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">-t </span><var>dir</var></samp>&rsquo;<dt>&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">--target=</span><var>dir</var></samp>&rsquo;<dd>Set the target directory to <var>dir</var> instead of the parent of the stow
<p>The following options are supported:
</p>
<dl class="table">
<dt>&lsquo;<samp class="samp">-t <var class="var">dir</var></samp>&rsquo;</dt>
<dt>&lsquo;<samp class="samp">--target=<var class="var">dir</var></samp>&rsquo;</dt>
<dd><p>Set the target directory to <var class="var">dir</var> instead of the parent of the stow
directory. Defaults to the parent of the stow directory, so it is typical to
execute <samp><span class="command">stow</span></samp> from the directory <samp><span class="file">/usr/local/stow</span></samp>.
<br><dt>&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">-b</span></samp>&rsquo;<dt>&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">--badlinks</span></samp>&rsquo;<dd>Checks target directory for bogus symbolic links. That is, links that point to
execute <code class="command">stow</code> from the directory <samp class="file">/usr/local/stow</samp>.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>&lsquo;<samp class="samp">-b</samp>&rsquo;</dt>
<dt>&lsquo;<samp class="samp">--badlinks</samp>&rsquo;</dt>
<dd><p>Checks target directory for bogus symbolic links. That is, links that point to
non-existent files.
<br><dt>&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">-a</span></samp>&rsquo;<dt>&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">--aliens</span></samp>&rsquo;<dd>Checks for files in the target directory that are not symbolic links. The
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<dt>&lsquo;<samp class="samp">--aliens</samp>&rsquo;</dt>
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target directory should be managed by stow alone, except for directories that
contain a <samp><span class="file">.stow</span></samp> file.
<br><dt>&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">-l</span></samp>&rsquo;<dt>&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">--list</span></samp>&rsquo;<dd>Will display the target package for every symbolic link in the stow target
contain a <samp class="file">.stow</samp> file.
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<dt>&lsquo;<samp class="samp">--list</samp>&rsquo;</dt>
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<h2 class="chapter">2 Terminology</h2>
<p class="indent"><a name="index-package-1"></a>A <dfn>package</dfn> is a related collection of files and directories that
<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-package"></a>
<p>A <em class="dfn">package</em> is a related collection of files and directories that
you wish to administer as a unit &mdash; e.g., Perl or Emacs &mdash; and that needs
to be installed in a particular directory structure &mdash; e.g., with
<samp><span class="file">bin</span></samp>, <samp><span class="file">lib</span></samp>, and <samp><span class="file">man</span></samp> subdirectories.
<p><a name="index-target-directory-2"></a>A <dfn>target directory</dfn> is the root of a tree in which one or more
packages wish to <em>appear</em> to be installed. A common, but by no
means the only such location is <samp><span class="file">/usr/local</span></samp>. The examples in this
manual will use <samp><span class="file">/usr/local</span></samp> as the target directory.
<p><a name="index-stow-directory-3"></a>A <dfn>stow directory</dfn> is the root of a tree containing separate
<samp class="file">bin</samp>, <samp class="file">lib</samp>, and <samp class="file">man</samp> subdirectories.
</p>
<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-target-directory"></a>
<p>A <em class="dfn">target directory</em> is the root of a tree in which one or more
packages wish to <em class="emph">appear</em> to be installed. A common, but by no
means the only such location is <samp class="file">/usr/local</samp>. The examples in this
manual will use <samp class="file">/usr/local</samp> as the target directory.
</p>
<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-stow-directory"></a>
<p>A <em class="dfn">stow directory</em> is the root of a tree containing separate
packages in private subtrees. When Stow runs, it uses the current
directory as the default stow directory. The examples in this manual
will use <samp><span class="file">/usr/local/stow</span></samp> as the stow directory, so that
individual packages will be, for example, <samp><span class="file">/usr/local/stow/perl</span></samp>
and <samp><span class="file">/usr/local/stow/emacs</span></samp>.
<p><a name="index-installation-image-4"></a>An <dfn>installation image</dfn> is the layout of files and directories
will use <samp class="file">/usr/local/stow</samp> as the stow directory, so that
individual packages will be, for example, <samp class="file">/usr/local/stow/perl</samp>
and <samp class="file">/usr/local/stow/emacs</samp>.
</p>
<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-installation-image"></a>
<p>An <em class="dfn">installation image</em> is the layout of files and directories
required by a package, relative to the target directory. Thus, the
installation image for Perl includes: a <samp><span class="file">bin</span></samp> directory containing
<samp><span class="file">perl</span></samp> and <samp><span class="file">a2p</span></samp> (among others); an <samp><span class="file">info</span></samp> directory
containing Texinfo documentation; a <samp><span class="file">lib/perl</span></samp> directory containing
Perl libraries; and a <samp><span class="file">man/man1</span></samp> directory containing man pages.
<p><a name="index-package-directory-5"></a><a name="index-package-name-6"></a>A <dfn>package directory</dfn> is the root of a tree containing the
installation image for Perl includes: a <samp class="file">bin</samp> directory containing
<samp class="file">perl</samp> and <samp class="file">a2p</samp> (among others); an <samp class="file">info</samp> directory
containing Texinfo documentation; a <samp class="file">lib/perl</samp> directory containing
Perl libraries; and a <samp class="file">man/man1</samp> directory containing man pages.
</p>
<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-package-directory"></a>
<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-package-name"></a>
<p>A <em class="dfn">package directory</em> is the root of a tree containing the
installation image for a particular package. Each package directory
must reside in a stow directory &mdash; e.g., the package directory
<samp><span class="file">/usr/local/stow/perl</span></samp> must reside in the stow directory
<samp><span class="file">/usr/local/stow</span></samp>. The <dfn>name</dfn> of a package is the name of its
directory within the stow directory &mdash; e.g., <samp><span class="file">perl</span></samp>.
<p>Thus, the Perl executable might reside in
<samp><span class="file">/usr/local/stow/perl/bin/perl</span></samp>, where <samp><span class="file">/usr/local</span></samp> is the
target directory, <samp><span class="file">/usr/local/stow</span></samp> is the stow directory,
<samp><span class="file">/usr/local/stow/perl</span></samp> is the package directory, and
<samp><span class="file">bin/perl</span></samp> within is part of the installation image.
<p><a name="index-symlink-7"></a><a name="index-relative-symlink-8"></a><a name="index-absolute-symlink-9"></a>A <dfn>symlink</dfn> is a symbolic link. A symlink can be <dfn>relative</dfn> or
<dfn>absolute</dfn>. An absolute symlink names a full path; that is, one
starting from <samp><span class="file">/</span></samp>. A relative symlink names a relative path; that
is, one not starting from <samp><span class="file">/</span></samp>. The target of a relative symlink is
computed starting from the symlink's own directory. Stow only
<samp class="file">/usr/local/stow/perl</samp> must reside in the stow directory
<samp class="file">/usr/local/stow</samp>. The <em class="dfn">name</em> of a package is the name of its
directory within the stow directory &mdash; e.g., <samp class="file">perl</samp>.
</p>
<p>Thus, the Perl executable might reside in
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<p>If you put Perl regular expressions, one per line, in a
<samp><span class="file">.stow-local-ignore</span></samp> file within any top level package directory,
<samp class="file">.stow-local-ignore</samp> file within any top level package directory,
in which case any file or directory within that package matching any
of these regular expressions will be ignored. In the absence of this
package-specific ignore list, Stow will instead use the contents of
<samp><span class="file">~/.stow-global-ignore</span></samp>, if it exists. If neither the
<samp class="file">~/.stow-global-ignore</samp>, if it exists. If neither the
package-local or global ignore list exist, Stow will use its own
built-in default ignore list, which serves as a useful example of the
format of these ignore list files:
</p>
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<pre class="verbatim"># Comments and blank lines are allowed.
<pre class="example"><pre class="verbatim"> # Comments and blank lines are allowed.
RCS
.+,v
CVS
\.\#.+ # CVS conflict files / emacs lock files
\.cvsignore
\.svn
_darcs
\.hg
\.git
\.gitignore
.+~ # emacs backup files
\#.*\# # emacs autosave files
^/README.*
^/LICENSE.*
^/COPYING
</pre></pre>
<p>Stow first iterates through the chosen ignore list (built-in, global,
RCS
.+,v
CVS
\.\#.+ # CVS conflict files / emacs lock files
\.cvsignore
\.svn
_darcs
\.hg
\.git
\.gitignore
.+~ # emacs backup files
\#.*\# # emacs autosave files
^/README.*
^/LICENSE.*
^/COPYING
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<p>Stow first iterates through the chosen ignore list (built-in, global,
or package-local) as per above, stripping out comments (if you want to
include the &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">#</span></samp>&rsquo; symbol in a regular expression, escape it with a
include the &lsquo;<samp class="samp">#</samp>&rsquo; symbol in a regular expression, escape it with a
blackslash) and blank lines, placing each regular expressions into one
of two sets depending on whether it contains the &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">/</span></samp>&rsquo; forward
of two sets depending on whether it contains the &lsquo;<samp class="samp">/</samp>&rsquo; forward
slash symbol.
<p>Then in order to determine whether a file or directory should be
</p>
<p>Then in order to determine whether a file or directory should be
ignored:
<ol type=1 start=1>
<li>Stow calculates its path relative to the top-level package directory,
prefixing that with &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">/</span></samp>&rsquo;. If any of the regular expressions
containing a &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">/</span></samp>&rsquo; <em>exactly</em><a rel="footnote" href="#fn-1" name="fnd-1"><sup>1</sup></a> match
a subpath<a rel="footnote" href="#fn-2" name="fnd-2"><sup>2</sup></a> of this relative path, then the file or
</p>
<ol class="enumerate">
<li> Stow calculates its path relative to the top-level package directory,
prefixing that with &lsquo;<samp class="samp">/</samp>&rsquo;. If any of the regular expressions
containing a &lsquo;<samp class="samp">/</samp>&rsquo; <em class="emph">exactly</em><a class="footnote" id="DOCF4" href="#FOOT4"><sup>4</sup></a> match
a subpath<a class="footnote" id="DOCF5" href="#FOOT5"><sup>5</sup></a> of this relative path, then the file or
directory will be ignored.
<li>If none of the regular expressions containing a &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">/</span></samp>&rsquo; match in the
</li><li> If none of the regular expressions containing a &lsquo;<samp class="samp">/</samp>&rsquo; match in the
manner described above, Stow checks whether the
<em>basename</em><a rel="footnote" href="#fn-3" name="fnd-3"><sup>3</sup></a> of the file or directory matches
<em>exactly</em> against the remaining regular expressions which do not
contain a &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">/</span></samp>&rsquo;, and if so, ignores the file or directory.
<em class="emph">basename</em><a class="footnote" id="DOCF6" href="#FOOT6"><sup>6</sup></a> of the file or directory matches
<em class="emph">exactly</em> against the remaining regular expressions which do not
contain a &lsquo;<samp class="samp">/</samp>&rsquo;, and if so, ignores the file or directory.
<li>Otherwise, the file or directory is not ignored.
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</li><li> Otherwise, the file or directory is not ignored.
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<p>For example, if a file <samp class="file">bazqux</samp> is in the <samp class="file">foo/bar</samp>
subdirectory of the package directory, Stow would use
&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">/foo/bar/bazqux</span></samp>&rsquo; as the text for matching against regular
expressions which contain &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">/</span></samp>&rsquo;, and &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">bazqux</span></samp>&rsquo; as the text for
matching against regular expressions which don't contain &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">/</span></samp>&rsquo;.
Then regular expressions &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">bazqux</span></samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">baz.*</span></samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">.*qux</span></samp>&rsquo;,
&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">bar/.*x</span></samp>&rsquo;, and &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">^/foo/.*qux</span></samp>&rsquo; would all match (causing the
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matching against regular expressions which don&rsquo;t contain &lsquo;<samp class="samp">/</samp>&rsquo;.
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&lsquo;<samp class="samp">o/bar/b</samp>&rsquo; would not (although &lsquo;<samp class="samp">bar</samp>&rsquo; would cause its parent
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anyway, in which case the file <samp class="file">bazqux</samp> would not even be
considered for stowing).
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is <em>always</em> ignored, regardless of the contents of any ignore
</p>
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<h4 class="footnotes-heading">Footnotes</h4>
<h5 class="footnote-body-heading"><a id="FOOT4" href="#DOCF4">(4)</a></h5>
<p>Exact matching means the
regular expression is anchored at the beginning and end, in contrast
to unanchored regular expressions which will match a substring.</p>
<p class="footnote"><small>[<a name="fn-2" href="#fnd-2">2</a>]</small> In this context, &ldquo;subpath&rdquo; means a contiguous
<h5 class="footnote-body-heading"><a id="FOOT5" href="#DOCF5">(5)</a></h5>
<p>In this context, &ldquo;subpath&rdquo; means a contiguous
subset of path segments; e.g for the relative path
<samp><span class="file">one/two/three</span></samp>, there are six valid subpaths: <samp><span class="file">one</span></samp>,
<samp><span class="file">two</span></samp>, <samp><span class="file">three</span></samp>, <samp><span class="file">one/two</span></samp>, <samp><span class="file">two/three</span></samp>,
<samp><span class="file">one/two/three</span></samp>.</p>
<p class="footnote"><small>[<a name="fn-3" href="#fnd-3">3</a>]</small> The &ldquo;basename&rdquo; is the name of the file or
<samp class="file">one/two/three</samp>, there are six valid subpaths: <samp class="file">one</samp>,
<samp class="file">two</samp>, <samp class="file">three</samp>, <samp class="file">one/two</samp>, <samp class="file">two/three</samp>,
<samp class="file">one/two/three</samp>.</p>
<h5 class="footnote-body-heading"><a id="FOOT6" href="#DOCF6">(6)</a></h5>
<p>The &ldquo;basename&rdquo; is the name of the file or
directory itself, excluding any directory path prefix - as returned by
the <samp><span class="command">basename</span></samp> command.</p>
the <code class="command">basename</code> command.</p>
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@set UPDATED 9 November 2015
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@set EDITION 2.2.2
@set VERSION 2.2.2
@set UPDATED 23 October 2023
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.IX Title "IO::FILE=IO(0X81D9F0) 1"
.TH IO::FILE=IO(0X81D9F0) 1 "2015-11-09" "perl v5.20.1" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
.IX Title "stow 8"
.TH stow 8 2023-10-23 "perl v5.38.0" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH "NAME"
stow \- software package installation manager
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.SH NAME
stow \- manage farms of symbolic links
.SH SYNOPSIS
.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
stow [ options ] package ...
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.SH DESCRIPTION
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
This manual page describes \s-1GNU\s0 Stow 2.2.2, a program for managing
the installation of software packages. This is not the definitive
documentation for stow; for that, see the info manual.
This manual page describes GNU Stow 2.3.2. This is not the
definitive documentation for Stow; for that, see the accompanying info
manual, e.g. by typing \f(CW\*(C`info stow\*(C'\fR.
.PP
Stow is a tool for managing the installation of multiple software
packages in the same run-time directory tree. One historical
difficulty of this task has been the need to administer, upgrade,
install, and remove files in independent packages without confusing
them with other files sharing the same filesystem space. For instance,
it is common to install Perl and Emacs in \fI/usr/local\fR. When one
does so, one winds up (as of Perl 4.036 and Emacs 19.22) with the
following files in \fI/usr/local/man/man1\fR: \fIa2p.1\fR; \fIctags.1\fR;
\&\fIemacs.1\fR; \fIetags.1\fR; \fIh2ph.1\fR; \fIperl.1\fR; and \fIs2p.1\fR. Now
suppose it's time to uninstall Perl. Which man pages get removed?
Obviously \fIperl.1\fR is one of them, but it should not be the
administrator's responsibility to memorize the ownership of individual
files by separate packages.
Stow is a symlink farm manager which takes distinct sets of software
and/or data located in separate directories on the filesystem, and
makes them all appear to be installed in a single directory tree.
.PP
The approach used by Stow is to install each package into its own
tree, then use symbolic links to make it appear as though the files
are installed in the common tree. Administration can be performed in
the package's private tree in isolation from clutter from other
packages. Stow can then be used to update the symbolic links. The
structure of each private tree should reflect the desired structure in
the common tree; i.e. (in the typical case) there should be a \fIbin\fR
directory containing executables, a \fIman/man1\fR directory containing
section 1 man pages, and so on.
Originally Stow was born to address the need to administer, upgrade,
install, and remove files in independent software packages without
confusing them with other files sharing the same file system space.
For instance, many years ago it used to be common to compile programs
such as Perl and Emacs from source. By using Stow, \fI/usr/local/bin\fR
could contain symlinks to files within \fI/usr/local/stow/emacs/bin\fR,
\&\fI/usr/local/stow/perl/bin\fR etc., and likewise recursively for any
other subdirectories such as \fI.../share\fR, \fI.../man\fR, and so on.
.PP
While this is useful for keeping track of system-wide and per-user
installations of software built from source, in more recent times
software packages are often managed by more sophisticated package
management software such as rpm, dpkg, and Nix / GNU Guix, or
language-native package managers such as Ruby's gem, Python's pip,
Javascript's npm, and so on.
.PP
However Stow is still used not only for software package management,
but also for other purposes, such as facilitating a more controlled
approach to management of configuration files in the user's home
directory, especially when coupled with version control systems.
.PP
Stow was inspired by Carnegie Mellon's Depot program, but is
substantially simpler and safer. Whereas Depot required database files
@ -181,38 +104,41 @@ 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., \fI/usr/local/stow/emacs\fR), so it's always
possible to rebuild the target tree (e.g., \fI/usr/local\fR).
.SH "TERMINOLOGY"
.PP
Stow is implemented as a combination of a Perl script providing a CLI
interface, and a backend Perl module which does most of the work.
.SH TERMINOLOGY
.IX Header "TERMINOLOGY"
A \*(L"package\*(R" is a related collection of files and directories that
you wish to administer as a unit \*(-- e.g., Perl or Emacs \*(-- and that
needs to be installed in a particular directory structure \*(-- e.g.,
A "package" is a related collection of files and directories that
you wish to administer as a unit \-\- e.g., Perl or Emacs \-\- and that
needs to be installed in a particular directory structure \-\- e.g.,
with \fIbin\fR, \fIlib\fR, and \fIman\fR subdirectories.
.PP
A \*(L"target directory\*(R" is the root of a tree in which one or more
A "target directory" is the root of a tree in which one or more
packages wish to \fBappear\fR to be installed. A common, but by no means
the only such location is \fI/usr/local\fR. The examples in this manual
page will use \fI/usr/local\fR as the target directory.
.PP
A \*(L"stow directory\*(R" is the root of a tree containing separate
A "stow directory" is the root of a tree containing separate
packages in private subtrees. When Stow runs, it uses the current
directory as the default stow directory. The examples in this manual
page will use \fI/usr/local/stow\fR as the stow directory, so that
individual packages will be, for example, \fI/usr/local/stow/perl\fR and
\&\fI/usr/local/stow/emacs\fR.
.PP
An \*(L"installation image\*(R" is the layout of files and directories
An "installation image" is the layout of files and directories
required by a package, relative to the target directory. Thus, the
installation image for Perl includes: a \fIbin\fR directory containing
\&\fIperl\fR and \fIa2p\fR (among others); an \fIinfo\fR directory containing
Texinfo documentation; a \fIlib/perl\fR directory containing Perl
libraries; and a \fIman/man1\fR directory containing man pages.
.PP
A \*(L"package directory\*(R" is the root of a tree containing the
A "package directory" is the root of a tree containing the
installation image for a particular package. Each package directory
must reside in a stow directory \*(-- e.g., the package directory
must reside in a stow directory \-\- e.g., the package directory
\&\fI/usr/local/stow/perl\fR must reside in the stow directory
\&\fI/usr/local/stow\fR. The \*(L"name\*(R" of a package is the name of its
directory within the stow directory \*(-- e.g., \fIperl\fR.
\&\fI/usr/local/stow\fR. The "name" of a package is the name of its
directory within the stow directory \-\- e.g., \fIperl\fR.
.PP
Thus, the Perl executable might reside in
\&\fI/usr/local/stow/perl/bin/perl\fR, where \fI/usr/local\fR is the target
@ -220,13 +146,13 @@ directory, \fI/usr/local/stow\fR is the stow directory,
\&\fI/usr/local/stow/perl\fR is the package directory, and \fIbin/perl\fR
within is part of the installation image.
.PP
A \*(L"symlink\*(R" is a symbolic link. A symlink can be \*(L"relative\*(R" or
\&\*(L"absolute\*(R". An absolute symlink names a full path; that is, one
A "symlink" is a symbolic link. A symlink can be "relative" or
"absolute". An absolute symlink names a full path; that is, one
starting from \fI/\fR. A relative symlink names a relative path; that
is, one not starting from \fI/\fR. The target of a relative symlink is
computed starting from the symlink's own directory. Stow only creates
relative symlinks.
.SH "OPTIONS"
.SH OPTIONS
.IX Header "OPTIONS"
The stow directory is assumed to be the value of the \f(CW\*(C`STOW_DIR\*(C'\fR
environment variable or if unset the current directory, and the target
@ -236,69 +162,71 @@ Each \fIpackage\fR given on the command line is the name of a package in
the stow directory (e.g., \fIperl\fR). By default, they are installed
into the target directory (but they can be deleted instead using
\&\f(CW\*(C`\-D\*(C'\fR).
.IP "\-n" 4
.IP \-n 4
.IX Item "-n"
.PD 0
.IP "\-\-no" 4
.IP \-\-no 4
.IX Item "--no"
.IP \-\-simulate 4
.IX Item "--simulate"
.PD
Do not perform any operations that modify the filesystem; merely show
what would happen.
.IP "\-d \s-1DIR\s0" 4
.IP "\-d DIR" 4
.IX Item "-d DIR"
.PD 0
.IP "\-\-dir=DIR" 4
.IP \-\-dir=DIR 4
.IX Item "--dir=DIR"
.PD
Set the stow directory to \f(CW\*(C`DIR\*(C'\fR instead of the current directory.
This also has the effect of making the default target directory be the
parent of \f(CW\*(C`DIR\*(C'\fR.
.IP "\-t \s-1DIR\s0" 4
.IP "\-t DIR" 4
.IX Item "-t DIR"
.PD 0
.IP "\-\-target=DIR" 4
.IP \-\-target=DIR 4
.IX Item "--target=DIR"
.PD
Set the target directory to \f(CW\*(C`DIR\*(C'\fR instead of the parent of the stow
directory.
.IP "\-v" 4
.IP \-v 4
.IX Item "-v"
.PD 0
.IP "\-\-verbose[=N]" 4
.IP \-\-verbose[=N] 4
.IX Item "--verbose[=N]"
.PD
Send verbose output to standard error describing what Stow is
doing. Verbosity levels are 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4; 0 is the default.
doing. Verbosity levels are from 0 to 5; 0 is the default.
Using \f(CW\*(C`\-v\*(C'\fR or \f(CW\*(C`\-\-verbose\*(C'\fR increases the verbosity by one; using
`\-\-verbose=N' sets it to N.
.IP "\-S" 4
.IP \-S 4
.IX Item "-S"
.PD 0
.IP "\-\-stow" 4
.IP \-\-stow 4
.IX Item "--stow"
.PD
Stow the packages that follow this option into the target directory.
This is the default action and so can be omitted if you are only
stowing packages rather than performing a mixture of
stow/delete/restow actions.
.IP "\-D" 4
.IP \-D 4
.IX Item "-D"
.PD 0
.IP "\-\-delete" 4
.IP \-\-delete 4
.IX Item "--delete"
.PD
Unstow the packages that follow this option from the target directory rather
than installing them.
.IP "\-R" 4
.IP \-R 4
.IX Item "-R"
.PD 0
.IP "\-\-restow" 4
.IP \-\-restow 4
.IX Item "--restow"
.PD
Restow packages (first unstow, then stow again). This is useful
for pruning obsolete symlinks from the target tree after updating
the software in a package.
.IP "\-\-adopt" 4
.IP \-\-adopt 4
.IX Item "--adopt"
\&\fBWarning!\fR This behaviour is specifically intended to alter the
contents of your stow directory. If you do not want that, this option
@ -312,32 +240,47 @@ same relative place within the package's installation image within the
stow directory, and then stowing proceeds as before. So effectively,
the file becomes adopted by the stow package, without its contents
changing.
.IP "\-\-no\-folding" 4
.IP \-\-no\-folding 4
.IX Item "--no-folding"
Disable folding of newly stowed directories when stowing, and
refolding of newly foldable directories when unstowing.
.IP "\-\-ignore=REGEX" 4
.IP \-\-ignore=REGEX 4
.IX Item "--ignore=REGEX"
Ignore files ending in this Perl regex.
.IP "\-\-defer=REGEX" 4
.IP \-\-defer=REGEX 4
.IX Item "--defer=REGEX"
Don't stow files beginning with this Perl regex if the file is already
stowed to another package.
.IP "\-\-override=REGEX" 4
.IP \-\-override=REGEX 4
.IX Item "--override=REGEX"
Force stowing files beginning with this Perl regex if the file is
already stowed to another package.
.IP "\-V" 4
.IP \-\-dotfiles 4
.IX Item "--dotfiles"
Enable special handling for "dotfiles" (files or folders whose name
begins with a period) in the package directory. If this option is
enabled, Stow will add a preprocessing step for each file or folder
whose name begins with "dot\-", and replace the "dot\-" prefix in the
name by a period (.). This is useful when Stow is used to manage
collections of dotfiles, to avoid having a package directory full of
hidden files.
.Sp
For example, suppose we have a package containing two files,
\&\fIstow/dot\-bashrc\fR and \fIstow/dot\-emacs.d/init.el\fR. With this option,
Stow will create symlinks from \fI.bashrc\fR to \fIstow/dot\-bashrc\fR and
from \fI.emacs.d/init.el\fR to \fIstow/dot\-emacs.d/init.el\fR. Any other
files, whose name does not begin with "dot\-", will be processed as usual.
.IP \-V 4
.IX Item "-V"
.PD 0
.IP "\-\-version" 4
.IP \-\-version 4
.IX Item "--version"
.PD
Show Stow version number, and exit.
.IP "\-h" 4
.IP \-h 4
.IX Item "-h"
.PD 0
.IP "\-\-help" 4
.IP \-\-help 4
.IX Item "--help"
.PD
Show Stow command syntax, and exit.
@ -360,8 +303,8 @@ symlinks to \fI../stow/perl/bin/perl\fR and \fI../stow/perl/bin/a2p\fR (and
so on), Stow will create a single symlink, \fI/usr/local/bin\fR, which
points to \fIstow/perl/bin\fR. In this way, it still works to refer to
\&\fI/usr/local/bin/perl\fR and \fI/usr/local/bin/a2p\fR, and fewer symlinks
have been created. This is called \*(L"tree folding\*(R", since an entire
subtree is \*(L"folded\*(R" into a single symlink.
have been created. This is called "tree folding", since an entire
subtree is "folded" into a single symlink.
.PP
To complete this example, Stow will also create the symlink
\&\fI/usr/local/info\fR pointing to \fIstow/perl/info\fR; the symlink
@ -383,7 +326,7 @@ tree-folding symlink.
.PP
The time often comes when a tree-folding symlink has to be undone
because another package uses one or more of the folded subdirectories
in its installation image. This operation is called \*(L"splitting open\*(R"
in its installation image. This operation is called "splitting open"
a folded tree. It involves removing the original symlink from the
target tree, creating a true directory in its place, and then
populating the new directory with symlinks to the newly-installed
@ -405,34 +348,55 @@ it is about to remove points inside a valid package in the current stow
directory.
.SS "Stow will never delete anything that it doesn't own."
.IX Subsection "Stow will never delete anything that it doesn't own."
Stow \*(L"owns\*(R" everything living in the target tree that points into a
Stow "owns" everything living in the target tree that points into a
package in the stow directory. Anything Stow owns, it can recompute if
lost. Note that by this definition, Stow doesn't \*(L"own\*(R" anything
lost. Note that by this definition, Stow doesn't "own" anything
\&\fBin\fR the stow directory or in any of the packages.
.PP
If Stow needs to create a directory or a symlink in the target tree
and it cannot because that name is already in use and is not owned by
Stow, then a conflict has arisen. See the \*(L"Conflicts\*(R" section in the
Stow, then a conflict has arisen. See the "Conflicts" section in the
info manual.
.SH "DELETING PACKAGES"
.IX Header "DELETING PACKAGES"
When the \f(CW\*(C`\-D\*(C'\fR option is given, the action of Stow is to delete a
package from the target tree. Note that Stow will not delete anything
it doesn't \*(L"own\*(R". Deleting a package does \fBnot\fR mean removing it from
it doesn't "own". Deleting a package does \fBnot\fR mean removing it from
the stow directory or discarding the package tree.
.PP
To delete a package, Stow recursively scans the target tree, skipping
over the stow directory (since that is usually a subdirectory of the
target tree) and any other stow directories it encounters (see
\&\*(L"Multiple stow directories\*(R" in the info manual). Any symlink it
"Multiple stow directories" in the info manual). Any symlink it
finds that points into the package being deleted is removed. Any
directory that contained only symlinks to the package being deleted is
removed. Any directory that, after removing symlinks and empty
subdirectories, contains only symlinks to a single other package, is
considered to be a previously \*(L"folded\*(R" tree that was \*(L"split open.\*(R"
considered to be a previously "folded" tree that was "split open."
Stow will re-fold the tree by removing the symlinks to the surviving
package, removing the directory, then linking the directory back to
the surviving package.
.SH "RESOURCE FILES"
.IX Header "RESOURCE FILES"
\&\fIStow\fR searches for default command line options at \fI.stowrc\fR (current
directory) and \fI~/.stowrc\fR (home directory) in that order. If both
locations are present, the files are effectively appended together.
.PP
The effect of options in the resource file is similar to simply prepending
the options to the command line. For options that provide a single value,
such as \fI\-\-target\fR or \fI\-\-dir\fR, the command line option will overwrite any
options in the resource file. For options that can be given more than once,
\&\fI\-\-ignore\fR for example, command line options and resource options are
appended together.
.PP
Environment variables and the tilde character (\fI~\fR) will be expanded for
options that take a file path.
.PP
The options \fI\-D\fR, \fI\-R\fR, \fI\-S\fR, and any packages listed in the resource
file are ignored.
.PP
See the info manual for more information on how stow handles resource
file.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IX Header "SEE ALSO"
The full documentation for \fIstow\fR is maintained as a Texinfo manual.
@ -443,46 +407,46 @@ If the \fIinfo\fR and \fIstow\fR programs are properly installed at your site, t
.Ve
.PP
should give you access to the complete manual.
.SH "BUGS"
.SH BUGS
.IX Header "BUGS"
Please report bugs in Stow using the Debian bug tracking system.
.PP
Currently known bugs include:
.IP "\(bu" 4
.IP \(bu 4
The empty-directory problem.
.Sp
If package \fIfoo\fR includes an empty directory \*(-- say, \fIfoo/bar\fR \*(--
If package \fIfoo\fR includes an empty directory \-\- say, \fIfoo/bar\fR \-\-
then if no other package has a \fIbar\fR subdirectory, everything's fine.
If another stowed package \fIquux\fR, has a \fIbar\fR subdirectory, then
when stowing, \fItargetdir/bar\fR will be \*(L"split open\*(R" and the contents
when stowing, \fItargetdir/bar\fR will be "split open" and the contents
of \fIquux/bar\fR will be individually stowed. So far, so good. But when
unstowing \fIquux\fR, \fItargetdir/bar\fR will be removed, even though
\&\fIfoo/bar\fR needs it to remain. A workaround for this problem is to
create a file in \fIfoo/bar\fR as a placeholder. If you name that file
\&\fI.placeholder\fR, it will be easy to find and remove such files when
this bug is fixed.
.IP "\(bu" 4
When using multiple stow directories (see \*(L"Multiple stow directories\*(R"
in the info manual), Stow fails to \*(L"split open\*(R" tree-folding symlinks
(see \*(L"Installing packages\*(R" in the info manual) that point into a stow
.IP \(bu 4
When using multiple stow directories (see "Multiple stow directories"
in the info manual), Stow fails to "split open" tree-folding symlinks
(see "Installing packages" in the info manual) that point into a stow
directory which is not the one in use by the current Stow
command. Before failing, it should search the target of the link to
see whether any element of the path contains a \fI.stow\fR file. If it
finds one, it can \*(L"learn\*(R" about the cooperating stow directory to
finds one, it can "learn" about the cooperating stow directory to
short-circuit the \fI.stow\fR search the next time it encounters a
tree-folding symlink.
.SH "AUTHOR"
.SH AUTHOR
.IX Header "AUTHOR"
This man page was originally constructed by Charles Briscoe-Smith from
parts of Stow's info manual, and then converted to \s-1POD\s0 format by Adam
parts of Stow's info manual, and then converted to POD format by Adam
Spiers. The info manual contains the following notice, which, as it
says, applies to this manual page, too. The text of the section
entitled \*(L"\s-1GNU\s0 General Public License\*(R" can be found in the file
entitled "GNU General Public License" can be found in the file
\&\fI/usr/share/common\-licenses/GPL\fR on any Debian GNU/Linux system. If
you don't have access to a Debian system, or the \s-1GPL\s0 is not there,
you don't have access to a Debian system, or the GPL is not there,
write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite
330, Boston, \s-1MA, 02111\-1307, USA.\s0
.SH "COPYRIGHT"
330, Boston, MA, 02111\-1307, USA.
.SH COPYRIGHT
.IX Header "COPYRIGHT"
Copyright (C)
1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 by Bob Glickstein <bobg+stow@zanshin.com>;
@ -497,7 +461,7 @@ preserved on all copies.
.PP
Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided also that
the section entitled \*(L"\s-1GNU\s0 General Public License\*(R" is included with the
the section entitled "GNU General Public License" is included with the
modified manual, and provided that the entire resulting derived work
is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to
this one.