Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 00:17:09 -0500 From: David Syphers <dsyphers@uchicago.edu> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sed -i Message-ID: <200209070017.09053.dsyphers@uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020907044048.GA88618@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200209062332.54123.dsyphers@uchicago.edu> <20020907044048.GA88618@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Friday 06 September 2002 11:40 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > 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 > > with the -i option into the ports just yet? This option is not supported in > > FreeBSD 4.6.2. I have noticed print/ghostscript-gnu and graphics/libmng use > > sed -i, and thus a 4.6.2-RELEASE machine cannot compile, for example, > > apsfilter or Mozilla. > > > > I'm not a committer, but those who are - please wait until a feature is > > present in a least the latest release before requiring it. I would have > > thought this was common sense, but apparently the relevent committers all run > > -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. Is there something I need to do other than cvsup? (I do this regularly.) The only things not in my cvsup file are foreign languages, palm, and picobsd. -David -- When ideas fail, words come in very handy. -Goethe Astronomy and Astrophysics Center The University of Chicago To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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