On 9/10/06, Jonas Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 20:40:40 +0200, Fábio Mierlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On 9/9/06, Jonas Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 02:38:51 +0200, Fábio Mierlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I'm trying to make a recipe for the Firebird database, it really
> >> sucks.
> >> >
> >> > There's 22K of patch until now, most of then is due hardcode "root"
> >> > strings.
> >>
> >> Can't you just do "find -type f | xargs -i sed -i s/root/0/ {}" in
> >> pre_patch()/pre_build()?
> >
> > No, it is a recipe for a database. Databases have trees and trees have
> > roots ;-)
> >
> hehe, could break stuff, huh? :)

Yes, some variables had the name root, hehehe

>
> > It isn't too difficult, I just grep and replace chown and string "root"
> > in most
> > of cases.
> >
> Then can't you sed those most cases in pre_patch()/pre_build() and only
> have a patch for the few(?) remaining cases?

I think it's better no, there is some exceptions and a really like the
way that patches  work.

Maybe I can put some comments of how to "sed" this source in the
recipe and send the patches to the developers.

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