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| author | Daniel Friesel <derf@derf.homelinux.org> | 2010-03-27 19:43:25 +0100 |
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| committer | Daniel Friesel <derf@derf.homelinux.org> | 2010-03-27 19:43:25 +0100 |
| commit | 06e95a7635c559a631515683a9dbfaeee8cda0c7 (patch) | |
| tree | 7f2e6490d382e59e1b72202629a3150438542491 /man/7 | |
| parent | 5eab75f69c3a816489e0ee3bbd60e0b53d833bb3 (diff) | |
Treat etc/ special: automatically "install" the dotfiles in it
Diffstat (limited to 'man/7')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/7/caretaker-setup.pod | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man/7/caretaker.pod | 14 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/man/7/caretaker-setup.pod b/man/7/caretaker-setup.pod index 4e64b4b..75554cd 100644 --- a/man/7/caretaker-setup.pod +++ b/man/7/caretaker-setup.pod @@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ this in the package root itself, since it's recommended to have bare git repos t Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/vim/.git/ client /tmp/vim > mkdir etc client /tmp/vim > cp $your_fancy_vimrc etc/vimrc - client /tmp/vim > echo 'soft .vimrc $etc/vimrc' > links client /tmp/vim > git add . client /tmp/vim > git commit -m 'initial commit. Now with extra cake' [master (root-commit) 4359548] initial commit. Now with extra cake diff --git a/man/7/caretaker.pod b/man/7/caretaker.pod index 488a870..95b03ab 100644 --- a/man/7/caretaker.pod +++ b/man/7/caretaker.pod @@ -105,7 +105,13 @@ a manual will be generated out of it (see L</"COLLECTED PACKAGE FILES">) =item etc/ -Configuration files, not treated specially though +Configuration files. Unless your package contains a links file, all files in +this directory (or, if it contains dotfiles, only the dotfiles) will +automatically symlinked as dotfiles from your home using checklinks(1). +So, for example F<etc/vimrc> will be installed as F<~/.vimrc>. + +If you do not want this behaviour, create an empty links file. +To disable it for all packages, set MAGIC_ETC=0. =item hooks/ @@ -117,11 +123,11 @@ Manual files, separated by section (like man/7/caretaker.pod). Files with valid POD will be processed with pod2man, all other files which do not have a .pod suffix are assumed to be *roff source and directly put into the manual directory (with a symlink). -See also L</"COLLECTED PACKAGE FILES">. +See also L</"COLLECTED PACKAGE FILES"> =item provides/ -Files for inclusion into other packages. See L</"PROVIDES"> +Files for inclusion into other packages. See L</"PROVIDES"> =item description @@ -129,7 +135,7 @@ Package description for B<ct info> =item links -Sym- and hardlink descriptions. See checklinks(1) +Manual sym- and hardlink definitions. See checklinks(1) =item Makefile |