LINKFARM(1) BSD General Commands Manual LINKFARM(1)NAMElinkfarm — manage symbolic links to package files
SYNOPSISlinkfarm [-cDnRVv] [-d stowdir] [-s subdir] [-t target] package
DESCRIPTION
The linkfarm command is used to manage a "linkfarm", a directory tree of
symbolic links in target to the files in the package sub-directory of
stowdir. The default action is to create a linkfarm to a package.
The following command-line options are supported:
-c Check whether a package contains a linkfarm in target. If
package has no symbolic links in target that correspond to its
files, then return 0, otherwise return 1.
-D Delete the linkfarm for package.
-d stowdir
Set stowdir as the directory in which package can be found. The
default stowdir is the packages sub-directory in the default
target directory.
-n Don't actually execute the commands for removing and creating the
symbolic links and directories.
-R Delete and re-create the linkfarm for package.
-s subdir
The root of the package hierarchy for the linkfarm is the subdir
sub-directory in the package. By default, assume the root of the
package hierarchy is simply the package directory.
-t target
Set target as the directory in which to create and delete the
linkfarm for package. The default target directory is /usr/pkg
but may be overridden by the LOCALBASE environment variable.
-V Print version number and exit.
-v Turn on verbose output. Specifying -v multiple times increases
the level of verbosity.
ENVIRONMENT
LOCALBASE
The standard packages directory, /usr/pkg, can be overridden by
specifying an alternative directory in the LOCALBASE environment
variable. This affects the default target and stowdir directo‐
ries.
PLIST_IGNORE_FILES
This can be used to specify files in package that should ignored
when creating and deleting symbolic links in target.
PLIST_IGNORE_FILES is a space-separated list of shell glob pat‐
terns that match files relative to the package directory, and it
defaults to "info/dir *[~#] *.OLD *.orig *,v".
SEE ALSOlndir(1), pkg_view(1)AUTHORS
The linkfarm utility was written by Alistair G. Crooks ⟨agc@NetBSD.org⟩.
BSD September 2, 2003 BSD
