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
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