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Re: [Help-stow] Not Owned Relative Symlink
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Adam Spiers |
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Re: [Help-stow] Not Owned Relative Symlink |
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Date: |
Sun, 22 Sep 2013 23:38:41 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 07:31:44PM -0400, Trans wrote:
> In my target directory I have created a simple relative link:
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> lib
> lib64 -> lib
Why did you do that?
> When I try to stow software that has a file under `lib64/` stow gives me
> the error "existing target is not owned by stow: lib64". But stow owns
> `lib` so why won't it work? And how can I get around this?
You are trying to do two things which conflict with each other.
Either you keep lib64 as a symlink, or you treat it as a normal
directory whose contents stow can sanely manage. You can't do both.