Bug 881353

Summary:	sys-boot/grub using obsolete fgrep
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Thomas Capricelli <orzel>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Mike Gilbert <floppym>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	base-system, hydrapolic
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Thomas Capricelli 2022-11-14 23:24:22 UTC

When using (for ex) grub-mkconfig, i got a bunch of warnings like:
fgrep: warning: fgrep is obsolescent; using /bin/grep -F

Using this command:

  equery files grub | xargs grep fgrep -l

, i can only find two files installed by grub, that uses fgrep:

/etc/grub.d/10_linux
/etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen




Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Nils Freydank 2022-11-15 20:34:42 UTC

Quoting from grep-3.8 release notes, https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2022-09/msg00001.html:

"The egrep and fgrep commands, which have been deprecated since
  release 2.5.3 (2007), now warn that they are obsolescent and should
  be replaced by grep -E and grep -F."

Comment 2 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2022-11-15 21:55:41 UTC

This has been fixed upstream. I do not plan to backport the fix.

Comment 3 Sam James archtester

2023-12-23 20:39:44 UTC

commit 76418694270557b6feb75381912a39569ee28d45
Author: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
Date:   Thu Dec 21 09:10:06 2023 -0800

    sys-boot/grub: add 2.12

    * Drop patch for util/grub.d/25_bli.in which was merged upstream.
    * Re-add unstable keywords for supported archs.
    * Create grub-core/extra_deps.lst missing from source tarball.

    Signed-off-by: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>