Added replace. Maybe abandon sed for substituteAll ?

svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=8987

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pkgs/tools/text/replace/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/text/replace/default.nix
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+{stdenv, fetchurl}:
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "replace-2.24";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = ftp://hpux.connect.org.uk/hpux/Users/replace-2.24/replace-2.24-src-11.11.tar.gz;
+    sha256 = "1c2nkxx83vmlh1v3ib6r2xqh121gdb1rharwsimcb2h0xwc558dm";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [];
+  makeFlags = " TREE=\$(out) ";
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "
+	Replace verbatim strings. Sed is not fit to do it. Replace is.
+";
+  };
+}