Kevin Barry wrote:

> This patch changes the way that sed inplace is run in makepkg when
> running in versionpkg mode. Previous, sed would run with no backup
> file, called in the GNU way. It seems there is no cross platform
> method of calling sed inplace with no backup (BSD/sed uses sed -i '',
> GNU/sed uses sed -i'' or simply sed -i).
>
> Instead, this patch creates a backup file (.pkgsave) and removes it
> after the succesful completion of the sed operation. This means the
> user should not see the backup file, unless something went run (full
> hard drive?) in which case they don't lose the PKGBUILD as they would
> have before.


What does BSD sed currently do? I am assuming it leaves a backup file(s) but can you clarify the numbers and names of these?

Thanks,
Allan


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