From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Sep 6 21:40:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 106B437B400 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 21:40:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-165-226-88.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.165.226.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 643F743E3B for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 21:40:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AEEE866D7A; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 21:40:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 21:40:48 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: David Syphers Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sed -i Message-ID: <20020907044048.GA88618@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200209062332.54123.dsyphers@uchicago.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200209062332.54123.dsyphers@uchicago.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 11:32:54PM -0500, David Syphers wrote: > Could somebody explain to me why it was necessary to introduce the use of= sed=20 > with the -i option into the ports just yet? This option is not supported = in=20 > FreeBSD 4.6.2. I have noticed print/ghostscript-gnu and graphics/libmng u= se=20 > sed -i, and thus a 4.6.2-RELEASE machine cannot compile, for example,=20 > apsfilter or Mozilla. >=20 > I'm not a committer, but those who are - please wait until a feature is= =20 > present in a least the latest release before requiring it. I would have= =20 > thought this was common sense, but apparently the relevent committers all= run=20 > -stable or -current. The sed_inplace port was created for precisely this purpose. Your ports collection _should_ be using it, if it's completely up-to-date. Kris --82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9eYNPWry0BWjoQKURAldBAKDvov1FA/IEYX4/jTzbzdKYKz4WJwCeIGLf u88EYPORionl2xE+1Q0pvX4= =3bvr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message