egrep warning installing Snapshot using DNF on OpenMandriva Linux

edwardp

I installed OpenMandriva Linux to a thumb drive and am seeing how it performs and how long the thumb drive (SanDisk) might last.

When installing Snapshot using DNF, the script displayed an egrep warning that it was obsolete and was running grep -E instead.

I do not know if this is actually a bug, but I reported it, as VB-97161.

Snapshot otherwise successfully installed.

This was the output from the script:

Key imported successfully
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
  Preparing        :                                                                            1/1 
  Running scriptlet: vivaldi-snapshot-6.1.3001.3-1.x86_64                                       1/1 
  Installing       : vivaldi-snapshot-6.1.3001.3-1.x86_64                                       1/1 
  Running scriptlet: vivaldi-snapshot-6.1.3001.3-1.x86_64                                       1/1 
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E

  Verifying        : vivaldi-snapshot-6.1.3001.3-1.x86_64                                       1/1 

Installed:
  vivaldi-snapshot-6.1.3001.3-1.x86_64                                                              

Complete!

luetage

@edwardp That’s not a bug, that’s just a notice. Simply ignore it.

DoctorG

@edwardp Is that a RPM from the vivald.com download site or from Vivaldi or a thirdparty repo?

edwardp

@DoctorG The Stable RPM was downloaded from vivaldi.com/download and it installed the Vivaldi RPM repo, from which I installed vivaldi-snapshot using dnf.

DoctorG

@edwardp I guess our Linux @Ruarí will check the issue.

luetage

@DoctorG It’s not an issue, egrep was a shorter way to write grep -E, nowadays they want you to use grep -E exclusively. I would imagine this will continue to work out fine for the next 10 years and makes no difference at all to the end user.

DoctorG

@luetage i know egrep I am Linux root server admin and desktop user.

Perhaps the installer script needs a fix to reduce these irritating warnings for users.

npro

@edwardp https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Grep-3.8-Stop-egrep-fgrep

ybjrepnfr

@edwardp said in egrep warning installing Snapshot using DNF on OpenMandriva Linux:

egrep warning that it was obsolete and was running grep -E

further to what @luetage has already said, this was unrelated to vivaldi but possibly still relevant as background info... several days ago in one of my fedora vm's i ran a command that included egrep. The terminal output also gave me the warning advice, but, iirc*, ~~did not actually then still run. So i needed to rerun my command, this time substituting grep -E, which ofc worked fine~~. i did not bother researching it, but assumed it's a fedora policy change.

* no, i just checked bash history; it warned but did indeed still proceed:
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E

i've not bothered yet testing in other distros to see if this is a linux-wide rather than just fedora thing.

edit: sigh, i sure do wish i'd noticed @npro's post first... hey @npro, pls post louder, & in pink or green!

DoctorG

Dev says, issue has to be fixed in upstream, not a Vivaldi installer issue.

edwardp

@DoctorG I had to reinstall Linux on an SSD and when I reinstalled Vivaldi Stable I used the command line to install it (instead of dnfdragora) and it also displayed the same output as above.

If this is an upstream issue, I think it would have to be with the dnf developers and not the Linux distro.