FS#4452 - Gawk package has wrong flags
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Opened by name withheld (Gullible Jones) - Thursday, 13 April 2006, 19:46 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Friday, 21 April 2006, 05:31 GMT
Opened by name withheld (Gullible Jones) - Thursday, 13 April 2006, 19:46 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Friday, 21 April 2006, 05:31 GMT
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[begin console output] :: Synchronizing package databases... shadowhand [################] 100% 7K 16.6K/s 00:00:00 :: testing is up to date :: current is up to date :: extra is up to date :: community is up to date :: Replace mawk with gawk from "current"? [Y/n] y Remove: mawk Targets: gawk-3.1.5-2 autoconf-2.59-2 mawk-1.3.3-7 sysvinit-2.86-2 Total Package Size: 1.0 MB Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n] n [end console output] Now there are two funny things here... First of all, both mawk and gawk are being installed. Second, and a little less obvious: I have *already installed* gawk. |
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Anyway, I think another part of the problem was that the packages should conflict with each other but don't...
Yes, I was going to make them conflict, but technically, they don't. Mawk now only provides /usr/bin/mawk and /usr/man/man1/mawk.1.
>> Umm BTW, why is mawk being replaced with gawk? I thought mawk performed significatly better?
There are some differences b/w the two with some awk functions. Also, JGC reported a couple packages that wouldn't build properly with mawk. And we've had multiple requests to move to gawk instead. So for the mawk lovers, it is still present in Extra.