Re: rawhide report: 20040903 changes

[Ronny Buchmann <ronny-vlug vlugnet org>]

On Saturday 04 September 2004 14:15, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 13:59:36 -0400 (EDT), Mike A. Harris wrote:
> > >Did the policy on no perl in RPM pre/post install scripts change?
> >
> > The perl code present now, replaces some very ugly sed code which
> > used temporary files.  I see no compelling technical reason to
> > not use perl.
>
> "sed -i" is one reason, albeit impossible with Red Hat Enterprise
> Linux 2.x or Red Hat Linux <= 8.0
temporary files are the smaller part of the problem
the big one is the unpredictable (and very limited) sed regex syntax

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