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On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 00:14 +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: |
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> I think the time is mature to ask for another step of Gentoo/ALT |
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> improvement ;) |
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> Currently ebuilds uses a sed syntax that's mostly GNU sed 4 compatible, but |
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> incompatible with BSD sed for instance. This is usually fine as we aliases |
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> sed to gsed in our bashrc so that the problem in sed calls is removed. |
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> The main problem happen with sed when called by xargs or by find, as that |
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> ignores the aliases set in bashrc. |
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> What I'd like to ask is, if possible, to start using gsed instead, that's |
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> present on both GNU and other userlands with current stable version of sed |
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> (4.1.4; ppc-macos has no problem as the 4.0.9 version uses gsed anyway). |
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> |
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> It might require to change the dependency over >=sys-apps/sed-4.1.4, but that |
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> would help making portage a bit cleaner IMHO (instead of relying on sed being |
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> the executable you need, it make sure you're using a GNU sed version) and |
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> solves quite a few headaches for us. |
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> |
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> Comments about this? (Please don't tell me to do a GLEP about this) |
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Can you change the PATH that Portage uses to do ebuilds to favour, |
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say, /usr/local/gentoo-bsd/wrappers/bin, first which will have a sed to |
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gsed wrapper? |
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Regards, |
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Lisa Seelye |
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http://www.thedoh.com/~lisa/site |
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