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?
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