On Dec 16, 2007, at 6:46 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > David Reiser wrote: >> Alexander has indirectly called my attention to the fact that >> gnucash2 has a utility that does a Bad Thing. >> >> gnc-fq-update is a perl script that invokes CPAN to install all the >> perl modules that gnucash uses for retrieving stock quotes via >> Finance::Quote. One of the modules installed is LWP, which doesn't >> play nice in at least the fink realm, and maybe macs in general. >> >> I could just delete the script post-install, but that would >> guarantee a few extra "what's (not) going on?" queries. I could >> also patch the strings pointing to the script saying "use fink to >> update finance- quote", but I'm pretty sure that would break a few >> translations. >> >> Since I could replace the whole script with: >> >> #!/bin/sh fink update date-manip-pm finance-quote-pm588 >> >> I'm thinking that might be the least intrusive method. (I already >> have separate .info files for 10.4 and 10.5 because of other perl >> issues, so I'd have to do the right thing in each.) >> >> How would I substitute my two line script for the contents of >> gnc-fq- update.in in the patchscript? >> >> Dave -- David Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> > How about something like: > > PatchScript: /usr/bin/perl -e 'print "#!/bin/sh\nfink update > date-manip-pm finance-quote-pm588\n";' > gnc-fq-update.in > > (modified as is appropriate for where the file actually is). That'll > overload the file with new contents.
Thanks. I suspected I'd be embarrassed by the simplicity of the solution, but I'm sure I'd have spent an absurdly long time getting the quoting right and remembering that > overwrites instead of appends. I'll test this in preparation for the new release that's coming in a day or so. Dave -- David Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
