#123 Issue closed: grep -P not available on Hardy (Ubuntu LTS 8.04)¶
Labels: documentation, discuss / RFC
dagwieers opened issue at 2012-06-27 07:38:¶
@mutax reported this on #rear.
We use grep -P in about 4 different places and Hardy does not have a
grep with -P/--perl-regexp compiled in.
A valid question is whether we want to support Hardy (Ubuntu LTS 8.04) at this time, even @mutax was not expecting us to support this. If we decide not to support Hardy, at least this issue serves as a reminder of that decision ;-)
dagwieers commented at 2012-06-27 07:42:¶
Ubuntu LTS 8.04 is support for servers until 2013-04 according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(operating_system)
gdha commented at 2012-07-14 08:51:¶
grep -P is also supported on Open/FreeBSD, so it is wide-spread. I would add Ubuntu LTS 8.04 to the not-supported list. Or, is there an easy way to get around the 'grep -P' command?
dagwieers commented at 2012-07-24 17:25:¶
Some of the grep -P invocation could be rewritten to not use it, but I don't really see the point. Let's document what is unsupported and why !
[Export of Github issue for rear/rear.]