Re: [gentoo-dev] perl, sed and non-gsed

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>]

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On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 18:06:17 +0200 "Diego \"Flameeyes\" Pettenò"
<flameeyes@users.berlios.de> wrote:
| Please also note that using a sintax like that:
| 
| sed -e expression file file file -i
| 
| just works on gsed, but doesn't work with other sed implementations
| (bsdish,  macos, solaris, ...). -i must be put before any -e!
| 
| Please update the erroneous ebuild, as these could make problems when 
| gentoo/non-linux-os .

Erm. No. Supporting -i is a requirement for any sed that is used by
ebuilds. If your native sed doesn't do it, you must provide a sed alias
to, say, GNU sed when in an ebuild environment. We already went over
that with the osx thing. Switching is infeasible.

Historically, any ebuild using sed -i would have a hard DEPEND upon
GNU sed-4. These were removed when GNU sed-4 became part of the
profiles, but as they're system deps you should consider GNU sed 4 a
requirement for your arch.

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