[Fedora-packaging] Use of dos2unix in %prep

Denis Leroy denis at poolshark.org
Fri Jan 23 10:39:37 UTC 2009


Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>> Le Jeu 22 janvier 2009 00:53, Toshio Kuratomi a écrit :
>>
>>> This discussion has ranged far afield of the original post.
>>>
>>> So, does anyone know of a reason to keep the dos2unix warning?
>> Is there anything dos2unix does which can not be done by standard
>> tools like sed?
>>
>> for txt in *.txt ; do
>>    iconv -f WINDOWS-1252 -t UTF-8 -o $txt.1 $txt
>>    fold -s $txt.1 > $txt.2
>>    sed -i 's/\r//' $txt.2
>>    touch -r $txt $txt.2
>>    mv $txt.2 $txt
>>    rm $txt.1
>> done
>>
> I don't know of any.

The whole point is to replace those 8 confusing lines of scripting with 
a simple call. It makes the spec file easier to read.

> But we shouldn't be telling people they must not
> use dos2unix (with a proper BuildRequires) if there's no actual problem.

+1




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