From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Sep 6 22:17:12 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 A7F5F37B400 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 22:17:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from midway.uchicago.edu (midway.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26FE943E42 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 22:17:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dsyphers@uchicago.edu) Received: from Yggdrasil (adsl-68-20-32-161.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net [68.20.32.161]) by midway.uchicago.edu (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g875H7h7025524; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 00:17:07 -0500 (CDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: David Syphers Reply-To: dsyphers@uchicago.edu To: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: sed -i Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 00:17:09 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 Cc: ports@freebsd.org References: <200209062332.54123.dsyphers@uchicago.edu> <20020907044048.GA88618@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20020907044048.GA88618@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200209070017.09053.dsyphers@uchicago.edu> 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 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