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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

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