
              stowES -- the stow Enhancement Script


Copyright 2000-2002 by Adam Lackorzynski <adam@os.inf.tu-dresden.de>

License: GPL, see the COPYING file in this distribution for details.

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stowES is a perl script which tries to ease the use of the stow packaging
program and software which can be compiled and installed with autoconf.

You should know what stow does with its packages and how to use autoconf'ed
sources...

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History:

At the beginning of this script there were only a few lines of code which
saved the `config.status' file for future reference so that I did not need
to look up all the options again and again. Then I encountered that
although the use of `stow' was quite easy it did not provide any option to
show which packages are installed an which packages are not. So I extended
my script. Then if you install new packages from source you have always to
do the same steps (tar, configure, make, make install prefix=...). My
script was further extended. The rest can be read here...


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Requirements:

`stowES' should run on all platforms where stow is running what means that
these platform should know perl and supply soft links (have I missed
something?).
 
I am currently using this script under Debian/GNU Linux, Solaris and AIX.

`stowES' was tested using perl version 5.0004_4, 5.0005_3 and 5.6 without
any problems so far (if not, mail me!).

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Documentation:

For all the commands and options etc. please see the manual page.

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 Recommendation:

  Since this is work in progress you should have a backup of your
  files when you play with my script. Normally nothing should happen to
  your files but who knows...

    

 Adam Lackorzynski <adam@os.inf.tu-dresden.de>   


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