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The update-symlinks-slashpackage program

update-symlinks-slashpackage runs update-symlinks on directories containing a slashpackage installation, to combine several physical slashpackage trees into a single one.

Interface

 update-symlinks-slashpackage sroot1 sroot2 ...

• update-symlinks-slashpackage will call

    update-symlinks r/x sroot1/x sroot2/x ...
  

  for x in package, command, and library.so. It will abort operation if one of the steps fail, and print update-symlinks' error message.
• r is normally empty, i.e. the command builds a package tree in /package. But if the SLASHPACKAGE_ROOT environment variable is defined, r is the value of that variable.
• library.so is an extension that is not described in DJB's slashpackage specification. update-symlinks-slashpackage will ignore all errors concerning library.so.

Example

 update-symlinks-slashpackage /initrd /rootfs /usr/local

will merge slashpackage installations (containing /package, /command and possibly library.so) in /initrd, /rootfs and /usr/local into a root-based slashpackage installation. It gives priority to the rightmost tree in case of conflict.

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