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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2024-c8eff7a0b7
2024-05-01 00:36:35.234999
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Name : stow
Product : Fedora EPEL 8
Version : 2.4.0
Release : 1.el8
URL : https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/stow.html
Summary : Manage the installation of software packages from source
Description :
GNU Stow is a program for managing the installation of software packages,
keeping them separate (/usr/local/stow/emacs vs. /usr/local/stow/perl, for
example) while making them appear to be installed in the same place
(/usr/local). Software to ease the keeping track of software built from
source, making it easy to install, delete, move etc.
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Update Information:
Changes in version 2.4.0
--dotfiles now works with directories
A long-standing bug preventing the --dotfiles option from working
correctly with directories has been fixed.
It should also works in combination with the --compat option.
Eliminated a spurious warning on unstowing
2.3.1 introduced a benign but annoying warning when unstowing
in certain circumstances. It looked like:
BUG in find_stowed_path? Absolute/relative mismatch between Stow dir X and
path Y
This was caused by erroneous logic, and has now been fixed.
Unstowing logic has been improved in other cases
Several other improvements have been made internally to the
unstowing logic. These changes should all be either invisible
(except for changes to debug output) or improvements, but if you
encounter any unexpected behaviour, please report it as directed
in the manual.
Improved debug output
Extra output resulting from use of the -v / --verbose flag
now appears in a more logical and understandable way.
Janitorial tasks
Users are not substantially affected by these changes.
Added some more information from the web page to the README
Made some improvements to the documentation
Improve readability of source code
Quite a few extra details have been added in comments to clarify
how the code works. Many variable names have also been
improved. The comments of many Stow class methods have been
converted into Perl POD format.
Added a CONTRIBUTING.md file
Add a watch target to Makefile
make watch provides easy continual pre-processing during
development, which reduces the risk of debugging the wrong code.
Removed texinfo.tex from the distribution
This eliminates existing and future bit-rot.
Updated aclocal.m4 from 1.15.1 to 1.16.5
This mostly just updates copyright notices to 2021, and URLs to https.
Replace broken gmane links with links to lists.gnu.org
gmane has been dead for quite a while.
Improve support for navigating / editing source via emacs
Support source navigation in emacs via [[https://github.com/jacktasia/dumb-
jump][dumb-jump]].
Configure cperl-mode to match existing coding style.
Various maintainer tweaks
Further improved the release process and its documentation in
various minor ways.
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ChangeLog:
* Mon Apr 22 2024 Packit <hello(a)packit.dev> - 2.4.0-1
- Update to 2.4.0 upstream release
- Resolves: rhbz#2273895
* Mon Apr 22 2024 Michel Lind <salimma(a)fedoraproject.org> - 2.3.1-8
- Use SPDX license expression
* Mon Apr 22 2024 Michel Lind <salimma(a)fedoraproject.org> - 2.3.1-7
- Enable Packit
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #2273895 - stow-2.4.0 is available
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2273895
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update stow' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "YUM", available at
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7\
/html/System_Administrators_Guide/ch-yum.html
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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