On 03-03-10 23:59:05 CET, Brian May wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 09:28:16AM +0100, Michael Bell wrote:
> > sed is perhaps a little bit problematical because every vendor uses it's 
> 
> I am far from a sed expert, but thought sed was basically the same
> everywhere. Hmmm.... I guess not...
> 
> Dare I even mention M4????

well, autoconf itself uses both m4 and sed. :-)
both can be used in a portable way (what's so problematic about sed
anyway?).

> > own flavour. Another idea is to write a small Perlscript which reads a 
> > configuration from a file and then reinstall all changed files (in this 
> > case we have no problem with different seds). So we are waiting for 
> > somebody who has a great idea, knows a good software or has some new 
> > ideas for the above described solution.
> 
> I could write a perl script that does this, if you want.

i don't think the tool is a problem, but the concept is...
what kinds of configurations do we need for the a least three flavors
(installs from source, from rpms and from debs)?

i use deb packages, but i've never packed one.

rj


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