On 2008-09-16 21:41, Martin.Hepworth wrote:

Is the gnu project "stow" still around? This is/was really useful in splitting 
out stuff and bringing back to /usr/local.

I'm still using "graft" for some packages, especially those where I
need to be able to quickly fall back to a previous version, within
a couple of seconds.  (Like some additional packages on my mailserver
and as a matter of fact, for those servers where I compile amanda
myself instead of using an rpm, and on my Solaris machines).

I switched from "stow" to "graft" long time ago, mainly because
stows assumes it's the only owner of the

http://www.gormand.com.au/peters/tools/graft/graft.html

(there is also a description of similar systems in section, "research")


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