Programs from Linux and OSX standalone builds can now be symlinked into a directory in PATH as an alternative installation method, and will use readlink to find where the build was unpacked.

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/doc/install/Linux_standalone.mdwn b/doc/install/Linux_standalone.mdwn
index e8df8adc0..0b626ad96 100644
--- a/doc/install/Linux_standalone.mdwn
+++ b/doc/install/Linux_standalone.mdwn
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ To use, just unpack the tarball, `cd git-annex.linux` and run `./runshell`
 as everything else included in the bundle.
 
 Alternatively, you can unpack the tarball, and add the directory to your
-`PATH`. This lets you use `git annex`, without overriding your system's
+`PATH`, or symlink the programs in the directory to a directory in your
+PATH. This lets you use `git annex`, without overriding your system's
 own versions of git, etc.
 
 Warning: This is a last resort. Most Linux users should instead
diff --git a/doc/todo/symlink_git-annex_binaries_to___126____47__.local__47__bin_for_prebuilt_package.mdwn b/doc/todo/symlink_git-annex_binaries_to___126____47__.local__47__bin_for_prebuilt_package.mdwn
index 516e20f79..627143924 100644
--- a/doc/todo/symlink_git-annex_binaries_to___126____47__.local__47__bin_for_prebuilt_package.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/symlink_git-annex_binaries_to___126____47__.local__47__bin_for_prebuilt_package.mdwn
@@ -17,3 +17,6 @@ Symlink this script to `~/.local/bin/git-annex`, `~/.local/bin/git-annex-shell`
 The script will detect the installation directory using `readlink`. Both absolute and relative links works. Then it starts the correct script depending on the basename of the link.
 
 It should be possible to link the `git-annex`, `git-annex-webapp` and `git-annex-shell` scripts instead if they used `readlink` to find out the location of the prebuilt package.
+
+> I've made the scripts look at readlink, so [[done]]. 
+> --[[Joey]]