Hi, I have just used dnf to put on the currently available maintenance in F38, having not put any on for a week or so, after upgrading from F37 via dnf system-upgrade a couple of weeks ago. After putting on the maintenance I used grub2-mkconfig to build the grub.cfg file and got the message below after it notified of finding the linux kernels, does anyone know what this means and why they are being produced from the released version of grub2-mkconfig, the process I ran after the maintenance I put on a week or so ago did not produce these messages?
fgrep: warning: fgrep is obsolescent; using grep -F
regards, Steve
On Sat, 10 Jun 2023 10:53:58 +1000 Stephen Morris wrote:
fgrep: warning: fgrep is obsolescent; using grep -F
It means OCD linux geeks have decided they ought to remove an option used for decades in uncounted thousands of shell scripts because they don't like it. They've done the same with egrep and uname.
Here's my "big hammer" fix including the scripts I use to put back the old behavior:
Am 10.06.23 um 03:11 schrieb Tom Horsley:
On Sat, 10 Jun 2023 10:53:58 +1000 Stephen Morris wrote:
fgrep: warning: fgrep is obsolescent; using grep -F
It means OCD linux geeks have decided they ought to remove an option used for decades in uncounted thousands of shell scripts because they don't like it. They've done the same with egrep and uname.
You mean, after a 15 years period of deprecation, they started to warn about it, but Fedora/RHAT-maintainers have missed to reflect this change to Fedora's packages.
My advice: BZ each of them, you encounter, so these package maintainers won't any longer have an excuse for their packages' out-datedness.
Ralf
On 10/6/23 11:11, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Sat, 10 Jun 2023 10:53:58 +1000 Stephen Morris wrote:
fgrep: warning: fgrep is obsolescent; using grep -F
It means OCD linux geeks have decided they ought to remove an option used for decades in uncounted thousands of shell scripts because they don't like it. They've done the same with egrep and uname.
Here's my "big hammer" fix including the scripts I use to put back the old behavior:
Thanks Tom, I'll have a look at that and see what I can do.
regards, Steve
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On Fri, Jun 9, 2023 at 9:54 PM Stephen Morris samorris@netspace.net.au wrote:
Hi, I have just used dnf to put on the currently available maintenance in F38, having not put any on for a week or so, after upgrading from F37 via dnf system-upgrade a couple of weeks ago. After putting on the maintenance I used grub2-mkconfig to build the grub.cfg file and got the message below after it notified of finding the linux kernels, does anyone know what this means and why they are being produced from the released version of grub2-mkconfig, the process I ran after the maintenance I put on a week or so ago did not produce these messages?
fgrep: warning: fgrep is obsolescent; using grep -F
/usr/sbin/grub2-mkconfig --help [...] Report bugs to bug-grub@gnu.org.
I haven't seen this warning since before COVID. There are lots of grub2-X scripts, it would be useful to identify the culprit. Maybe replace the current fgrep script with one that prints more details.
On 11 Jun 2023 at 16:24, George N. White III wrote:
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On Fri, Jun 9, 2023 at 9:54 PM Stephen Morris samorris@netspace.net.au wrote: Hi, I have just used dnf to put on the currently available maintenance in F38, having not put any on for a week or so, after upgrading from F37 via dnf system-upgrade a couple of weeks ago. After putting on the maintenance I used grub2-mkconfig to build the grub.cfg file and got the message below after it notified of finding the linux kernels, does anyone know what this means and why they are being produced from the released version of grub2-mkconfig, the process I ran after the maintenance I put on a week or so ago did not produce these messages?
fgrep: warning: fgrep is obsolescent; using grep -F
/usr/sbin/grub2-mkconfig --help [...] Report bugs to bug-grub@gnu.org.
I haven't seen this warning since before COVID. There are lots of grub2-X scripts, it would be useful to identify the culprit. Maybe replace the current fgrep script with one that prints more details.
Did a quick check on my system with Fedora 37. In /etc/grub.d for a in *; do echo $a; grep "fgrep" <$a; done 00_header 01_users 08_fallback_counting 10_linux list=`echo $list | tr ' ' '\n' | fgrep -vx "$linux" | tr '\n' ' '` 10_reset_boot_success 12_menu_auto_hide 14_menu_show_once 20_linux_xen list=`echo $list | tr ' ' '\n' | fgrep -vx "$linux" | tr '\n' ' '` xen_list=`echo $xen_list | tr ' ' '\n' | fgrep -vx "$current_xen" | tr '\n' ' '` 20_memtest86+ 20_ppc_terminfo 30_os-prober 30_uefi-firmware 35_fwupd 40_custom 41_custom
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On 12/6/23 05:24, George N. White III wrote:
On Fri, Jun 9, 2023 at 9:54 PM Stephen Morris samorris@netspace.net.au wrote:
Hi, I have just used dnf to put on the currently available maintenance in F38, having not put any on for a week or so, after upgrading from F37 via dnf system-upgrade a couple of weeks ago. After putting on the maintenance I used grub2-mkconfig to build the grub.cfg file and got the message below after it notified of finding the linux kernels, does anyone know what this means and why they are being produced from the released version of grub2-mkconfig, the process I ran after the maintenance I put on a week or so ago did not produce these messages? fgrep: warning: fgrep is obsolescent; using grep -F/usr/sbin/grub2-mkconfig --help [...] Report bugs to bug-grub@gnu.org.
I haven't seen this warning since before COVID. There are lots of grub2-X scripts, it would be useful to identify the culprit. Maybe replace the current fgrep script with one that prints more details.
The last update I did was the first time I have ever seen this message. Why are the grub maintainers not updating their scripts to avoid this?
regards, Steve
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On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 8:03 PM Stephen Morris samorris@netspace.net.au wrote:
On 12/6/23 05:24, George N. White III wrote:
On Fri, Jun 9, 2023 at 9:54 PM Stephen Morris samorris@netspace.net.au wrote:
Hi, I have just used dnf to put on the currently available maintenance in F38, having not put any on for a week or so, after upgrading from F37 via dnf system-upgrade a couple of weeks ago. After putting on the maintenance I used grub2-mkconfig to build the grub.cfg file and got the message below after it notified of finding the linux kernels, does anyone know what this means and why they are being produced from the released version of grub2-mkconfig, the process I ran after the maintenance I put on a week or so ago did not produce these messages?
fgrep: warning: fgrep is obsolescent; using grep -F
/usr/sbin/grub2-mkconfig --help [...] Report bugs to bug-grub@gnu.org.
I haven't seen this warning since before COVID. There are lots of grub2-X scripts, it would be useful to identify the culprit. Maybe replace the current fgrep script with one that prints more details.
The last update I did was the first time I have ever seen this message. Why are the grub maintainers not updating their scripts to avoid this?
Maybe they did and the change hasn't percolated down to Fedora yet -- I need to check the srpms and upstream, but I tend to rely on N. Hemisphere snowstorms for time to catch up on neglected tasks.
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