#20592: relocate-once.py does not handle local/bin/gp-2.8
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Reporter: ehlen | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: needs_info
Priority: blocker | Milestone: sage-7.3
Component: distribution | Resolution:
Keywords: | Merged in:
Authors: | Reviewers: Jeroen Demeyer
Report Upstream: N/A | Work issues:
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Comment (by jdemeyer):
Replying to [comment:21 nbruin]:
> so the to-be-replaced string occurs several times in what seems to be a
0-terminated string. Can't we just:
> - scan for the pattern
> - get the shortest 0-terminated block that contains the pattern
> - verify that this block looks like an ascii string
> - do a search-and-replace on the string
> - check that the new string isn't longer than what it was before
> - pad the new string with 0-bytes so that it has the right length, and
make this the new block
> - overwrite the old block with the new block
Interesting, this is my mental image of how `binary-pkg` currently works.
So I wonder what it is doing then, if not the above.
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