On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Peter Bloomfield < [email protected]> wrote:
> On 09/02/2009 10:07 AM, Warren Togami wrote: > >> >> On 09/02/2009 11:39 AM, Jerry James wrote: >> >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Warren Togami<wtogami redhat com> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> What is the correct behavior? Is this a bug that it changed? >>>> >>> >>> Read up on the --follow-symlinks option to sed. >>> >> >> This is a new option it seems, meaning I can't rely on sed -i at all >> anymore. I'm rather displeased that a core utility fundamentally changed its >> own behavior. >> >> Warren >> > > Apparently [1] upstream sed always broke symlinks, and "Red Hat made a > patch" to follow them instead. Fedora packages from some point up to > sed-4.1.5-12.fc11 seem to have used it. So the default behavior in Fedora > sed is now consistent with upstream, instead of with the prior patched > version. That's inconvenient if you're accustomed to the "Red Hat" version, > but better for interoperability! > > Peter > > [1] > http://www.nabble.com/Re:-sed:-Patch-to-follow-symlinks-and--c-option-td7471749.html > > In fact the comment in this link is .... I want sed -i and perl -i to behave as similarly as possible. Hence, the patch is rejected as is. --copy is rejected for the same reason. ..... as i have already commented out previously. Regards -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list >
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