Le dimanche 14 mai 2006 à 08:58 -0500, John Goerzen a écrit : > On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 01:29:12PM +0200, Jerome Warnier wrote: > > I don't like to have to install unneeded packages on my system. > > To build the Bacula Debian packages, ssed is used, but I don't quite > > understand why not use GNU sed instead. > > Hi Jerome, > > I did not realize that GNU sed supports inplace editing (-i). > According to its documentation, it does now. I will test, and if it > works, I will make this change. Yes, it supports it for a long time. Theorically, you should probably put a versioned dependency on sed (which is essential, BTW) to insure a version recent enough to support it (Sarge's one is yet, so I guess this is not really needed). If it's not in the doc, it probably deserves a bugreport.
> If it does not work, I will not make the change, since the logic in > the rules file is much simpler with in-place editing as opposed to > having to write a for loop with output to temporary files. It will work, I use it (-i) really often, for a long time. > Thanks, > > -- John -- Jérôme Warnier FLOSS Consultant http://beeznest.net
