Bug 502934

Summary:	update sed to latest release 4.2.1
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	acount closed by user <a1459440>
Component:	sed	Assignee:	Jiri Moskovcak <jmoskovc>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	11	CC:	dfediuck, jmoskovc, pbonzini
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OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	4.2.1-1.fc11	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Bug Blocks:	490473

Description acount closed by user 2009-05-27 20:16:05 UTC

changes since 4.1.5(Feb-2006):

* now released under GPLv3

* added a new extension `z` to clear pattern space even in the presence
of invalid multibyte sequences

* a preexisting GNU gettext installation is needed in order to compile
GNU sed with NLS support

* new option --follow-symlinks, available when editing a file in-place.
This option may not be available on some systems (in this case, the
option will *not* be a no-op; it will be completely unavailable).
In the future, the option may be added as a no-op on systems without
symbolic links at all, since in this case a no-op is effectively
indistinguishable from a correct implementation.

* hold-space is reset between different files in -i and -s modes.

* multibyte processing fixed

* the following GNU extensions are turned off by --posix: options [iImMsSxX]
in the `s' command, address kinds `FIRST~STEP' and `ADDR1,+N' and `ADDR1,~N',
line address 0, `e' or `z' commands, text between an `a' or `c' or `i'
command and the following backslash, arguments to the `l' command.
--posix disables all extensions to regular expressions.

* fixed bug in 'i\' giving a segmentation violation if given alone.

* much improved portability

* much faster in UTF-8 locales

* will correctly replace ACLs when using -i

* will now accept NUL bytes for `.'


-thanks-

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 16:41:04 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 2 Paolo Bonzini 2009-06-25 18:41:04 UTC

Note that sed 4.2.1 will fix bug 453623 too.

Comment 3 Paolo Bonzini 2009-06-27 13:52:02 UTC

I released 4.2.1 which would fix all open sed bugs in RH bugzilla and eliminate the need for all the patches in RH's rpms.

You should probably add a dummy -c/--copy option without reporting it in the help, for backwards compatibility.  Its functionality is now unnecessary, since the bugs it worked around are not there anymore.

Thanks!

Comment 4 Jiri Moskovcak 2009-06-29 08:57:22 UTC

I'll do it ASAP,
thank you.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2009-07-01 10:40:42 UTC

sed-4.2.1-1.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/sed-4.2.1-1.fc11

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2009-07-03 19:37:11 UTC

sed-4.2.1-1.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update sed'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-7311

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2009-07-22 22:00:20 UTC

sed-4.2.1-1.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.