Bug 24237

Summary:	Usage of sed -i in ebuilds
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Derk-Jan Hartman <thedj>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	taviso
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Derk-Jan Hartman 2003-07-10 09:24:25 UTC

I was walking trough some ebuilds and suddenly came accross one that was using sed -i 
to do a substitution on a file.

-i option is not very portable. This is gonna create some problems with at least the 
upcoming macosx porting effort, since Darwin's sed doesn't support -i.
Grepping trough my portage dir i found hundreds of occurences of this syntax. All these 
occurences ought to be replace with something like the following:

sed "s:tosub:thesub:" configure.orig > configure

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Tavis Ormandy (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-07-10 12:21:03 UTC

Can GNU sed be built on OSX? if so, this is no big deal, OSX users just get a wrapper scipt in /usr/lib/portage/bin, or whatever the equivalent is on osx.

just adding my 2p :)

Comment 2 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-07-10 13:36:57 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 24208 ***