From: W. Trevor King Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:33:52 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Add dependency section to the README and update homepage to tremily. X-Git-Tag: v0.3~21 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=18eb3d4721c29893299bf3187c850e4f79f7e4a7;p=dotfiles-framework.git Add dependency section to the README and update homepage to tremily. --- diff --git a/README b/README index ed9c3c5..a26d00d 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -107,6 +107,21 @@ repository is the same as installing the first:: Future calls to ``dotfiles.sh update`` will update all of your repositories in turn. +Dependencies +------------ + +``dotfiles.sh`` is a script, so there are no compilation dependencies. +However, you will need sufficiently modern versions of the external +utilities it uses. They are listed at the beginning of +``dotfiles.sh``, which should make it easy so select alternative +implementations if the version installed in your ``PATH`` is not up to +standard. For example, I just set things up on my univerity's archaic +SunOS 5.10 server (circa 2005), and I needed to install current +versions of ``bash``, ``ln`` (in the coreutils_ package), and ``tar`` +to succesfully run a ``wget``-based dotfile repository. + +.. _coreutils: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ + Help ---- @@ -120,4 +135,4 @@ with:: Homepage -------- -http://physics.drexel.edu/~wking/unfolding-disasters/posts/dotfiles/ +http://blog.tremily.us/posts/dotfiles/