Hello. needrestart installs and uses scripts that call sed with '-z' option [1,2]. This option was introduced in sed-4.2.2 [3]. Thus needrestart must depend on >=sys-apps/sed-4.2.2. Please fix. [1]: https://github.com/liske/needrestart/blob/1a3b68a38e0691ca82e894ef591b23af666cc14d/lib/notify.d.sh#L34 [2]: https://github.com/liske/needrestart/blob/1c17aa96ed455c6f10b496fa6a5c17daf96558ac/ex/notify.d/400-notify-send#L34 [3]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.gnu.general/7873
Created attachment 440172 [details] emerge --info needrestart
Here's the output from `needrestart -v -m a -r l' that demonstrates the problem: [...] User sessions running outdated binaries: root @ /dev/tty7: X[2077] [main] run /etc/needrestart/notify.d/200-write sed: invalid option -- 'z' Usage: sed [OPTION]... {script-only-if-no-other-script} [input-file]... -n, --quiet, --silent suppress automatic printing of pattern space -e script, --expression=script add the script to the commands to be executed -f script-file, --file=script-file add the contents of script-file to the commands to be executed --follow-symlinks follow symlinks when processing in place -i[SUFFIX], --in-place[=SUFFIX] edit files in place (makes backup if extension supplied) -l N, --line-length=N specify the desired line-wrap length for the `l' command --posix disable all GNU extensions. -r, --regexp-extended use extended regular expressions in the script. -s, --separate consider files as separate rather than as a single continuous long stream. -u, --unbuffered load minimal amounts of data from the input files and flush the output buffers more often --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit If no -e, --expression, -f, or --file option is given, then the first non-option argument is taken as the sed script to interpret. All remaining arguments are names of input files; if no input files are specified, then the standard input is read. GNU sed home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/sed/>. General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>. [/etc/needrestart/notify.d/200-write] notify user root on /dev/tty7 [main] run /etc/needrestart/notify.d/400-notify-send sed: invalid option -- 'z' Usage: sed [OPTION]... {script-only-if-no-other-script} [input-file]... -n, --quiet, --silent suppress automatic printing of pattern space -e script, --expression=script add the script to the commands to be executed -f script-file, --file=script-file add the contents of script-file to the commands to be executed --follow-symlinks follow symlinks when processing in place -i[SUFFIX], --in-place[=SUFFIX] edit files in place (makes backup if extension supplied) -l N, --line-length=N specify the desired line-wrap length for the `l' command --posix disable all GNU extensions. -r, --regexp-extended use extended regular expressions in the script. -s, --separate consider files as separate rather than as a single continuous long stream. -u, --unbuffered load minimal amounts of data from the input files and flush the output buffers more often --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit If no -e, --expression, -f, or --file option is given, then the first non-option argument is taken as the sed script to interpret. All remaining arguments are names of input files; if no input files are specified, then the standard input is read. GNU sed home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/sed/>. General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>. [/etc/needrestart/notify.d/400-notify-send] skip session '/dev/tty7' [...]
Thank you for the excellent bug report! https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/1859
https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/commit/89608b1c031f38cf19a2bc21212b854eb33d431d
