On Saturday 04 September 2004 14:15, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 13:59:36 -0400 (EDT), Mike A. Harris wrote: > > >Did the policy on no perl in RPM pre/post install scripts change? > > > > The perl code present now, replaces some very ugly sed code which > > used temporary files. I see no compelling technical reason to > > not use perl. > > "sed -i" is one reason, albeit impossible with Red Hat Enterprise > Linux 2.x or Red Hat Linux <= 8.0 temporary files are the smaller part of the problem the big one is the unpredictable (and very limited) sed regex syntax -- http://LinuxWiki.org/RonnyBuchmann
