https://github.com/myitcv/var-sym-fs

A fuse-based implementation of variant symlinks (WIP)
https://github.com/myitcv/var-sym-fs

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A fuse-based implementation of variant symlinks (WIP)

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/myitcv/var-sym-fs
• Owner: myitcv
• License: other
• Created: 2014-03-18T10:36:30.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2014-03-18T18:39:33.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-07T11:09:30.419Z (2 months ago)
• Language: Go
• Size: 137 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# ** IMPORTANT **

This code is unmaintained and more significantly, does not work. It is here for historical purposes only.

## var-sym-fs

A very basic and rough implementation of [variant symlinks](https://wiki.freebsd.org/200808DevSummit?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=variant-symlinks-for-freebsd.pdf) using [`go-fuse`](https://github.com/hanwen/go-fuse)

With time this will accept mount requests of the form:

```

var-sym-fs   

```

So for example:

```

var-sym-fs /home/myitcv/.gos GO_VERSION /home/myitcv/go

```

with the command:

```bash

GO_VERSION=go1.2.1 ls /home/myitcv/go

```

would list the contents of `/home/myitcv/.gos/go1.2.1`.

Furthermore (and this is potentially the most powerful use case), `PATH`, `GOPATH` etc could be defined to include paths

that are variant symlinks. This would do away with the need for [`gvm`](https://github.com/moovweb/gvm),

[`rbenv`](https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv) and other such version managers. Indeed it would also do away with the

need for many package managers (slight caveat here because there are some important use cases `var-sym-fs` would not

handle that `gvm pkgset` does, for example local `pkgset`'s)

# Status

Work in progress. Currently blocked on two *critical* items:

* Cannot `execve` a file on the mount. Blocked on [an answer from the LKML](https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/17/492)

* A slight change to [`github.com/hanwen/go-fuse`](https://github.com/hanwen/go-fuse/pull/21)

# License

See the top-level `LICENSE` file