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| − | The | + | The simplified command for fixing metadata just displays the text to the screen. I'm looking at this perhaps being a bit of receipe type book for people who struggle with openvz (ie, folks a bit newer to linux). With the display on the screen they still have to write it to a temporary file, and then copy that temporary file over the original, so the receipe is a bit incomplete. |
You can easily do this in a one line command of course, but you still end often using an extra intermediate file, which is why I picked the .orig file way of doing things. I think it's a good example for folks who might do other (especially non-idempotent) sed operations. The original method allows repeated applications without worrying if something has already been applied, is completely reversible, and if a source repo is available makes patch submission very easy :) Any time I find myself modifying upstream sources I've used this approach (ie, keep an .orig copy) and it has worked very well especially for contributing back. | You can easily do this in a one line command of course, but you still end often using an extra intermediate file, which is why I picked the .orig file way of doing things. I think it's a good example for folks who might do other (especially non-idempotent) sed operations. The original method allows repeated applications without worrying if something has already been applied, is completely reversible, and if a source repo is available makes patch submission very easy :) Any time I find myself modifying upstream sources I've used this approach (ie, keep an .orig copy) and it has worked very well especially for contributing back. | ||
| − | Anyways, those are the two cents. Happy to see it simplified again (the other classic approach is > tempfile && mv tempfile origfile). And of course the tip is likely to be short lived anyways! | + | Anyways, those are the two cents. Happy to see it simplified again (the other classic approach is > tempfile && mv tempfile origfile). And of course the tip is likely to be short lived anyways! |