[gentoo-user] runscript is deprecated; please use openrc-run instead

[gentoo-user] runscript is deprecated; please use openrc-run instead

[Gevisz]

Quite for a long time, while booting my Gentoo system,
I get the following message message:

"runscript is deprecated; please use openrc-run instead"

What shall I do to fix this issue accept for reinstallig
my Gentoo system anew?
 

Re: [gentoo-user] runscript is deprecated; please use openrc-run instead

[Alan McKinnon]

On 12/04/2015 12:48, Gevisz wrote:
> Quite for a long time, while booting my Gentoo system,
> I get the following message message:
> 
> "runscript is deprecated; please use openrc-run instead"
> 
> What shall I do to fix this issue accept for reinstallig
> my Gentoo system anew?
>  
> 


Do nothing.

runscript is the shebang for init scripts for various services,
runscript and openrc-run are both provided by openrc.

Any change to be made is done by the ebuild.

p.s. when asking for help please provide relevant information, such as
do you run a satble or unstable system, what versions of related
software are installed and most important - what effect if any does the
problem have? I can't tell if your system boots normally or if it blows
up and eats your kittens.




-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] runscript is deprecated; please use openrc-run instead

[Gevisz]

On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 13:04:40 +0200 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12/04/2015 12:48, Gevisz wrote:
> > Quite for a long time, while booting my Gentoo system,
> > I get the following message message:
> > 
> > "runscript is deprecated; please use openrc-run instead"
> > 
> > What shall I do to fix this issue accept for reinstallig
> > my Gentoo system anew?
> >  
> 
> Do nothing.

Thank you for your answer but why that message appear at all, then?

> runscript is the shebang for init scripts for various services,
> runscript and openrc-run are both provided by openrc.

Sorry, but I do not understand the word "shebang" in this context.

> Any change to be made is done by the ebuild.

Well, it is a good news for me. :)

> p.s. when asking for help please provide relevant information, such as
> do you run a satble or unstable system,

I mostly run stable system and have only two unstable packages, namely,
vimb and google-chrome. Hopefully, they do not influence booting in any way. :)

> what versions of related software are installed

sys-apps/openrc-0.13.11

> and most important - what effect if any does the problem have?

So far, no noticeable effects accept for the warning message above.

> I can't tell if your system boots normally or if it blows
> up and eats your kittens.

Shall I wait for that to happen before starting to worry? :) 
 

Re: [gentoo-user] runscript is deprecated; please use openrc-run instead

[Mick]

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On Sunday 12 Apr 2015 12:27:33 Gevisz wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 13:04:40 +0200 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > On 12/04/2015 12:48, Gevisz wrote:
> > > Quite for a long time, while booting my Gentoo system,
> > > I get the following message message:
> > > 
> > > "runscript is deprecated; please use openrc-run instead"
> > > 
> > > What shall I do to fix this issue accept for reinstallig
> > > my Gentoo system anew?
> > 
> > Do nothing.
> 
> Thank you for your answer but why that message appear at all, then?
> 
> > runscript is the shebang for init scripts for various services,
> > runscript and openrc-run are both provided by openrc.
> 
> Sorry, but I do not understand the word "shebang" in this context.

Some (older) service startup script is starting with a:

#!/sbin/runscript

shebang, instead of the openrc equivalent:

#!/sbin/openrc-run


If you look in your /etc/init.d/ scripts you will see that there quite a few 
that still start with the runscript shebang.

Eventually ebuilds will update their startup scripts to use the openrc syntax, 
unless systemd takes over the world and openrc is abandoned.


> > and most important - what effect if any does the problem have?
> 
> So far, no noticeable effects accept for the warning message above.
> 
> > I can't tell if your system boots normally or if it blows
> > up and eats your kittens.
> 
> Shall I wait for that to happen before starting to worry? :)

No, because after it eats your kittens it will drink your beer.  We can't have 
that!

-- 
Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] runscript is deprecated; please use openrc-run instead

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 14:27:33 +0300, Gevisz wrote:

> > Do nothing.  
> 
> Thank you for your answer but why that message appear at all, then?

Because the message say deprecated, which means it will continue to work
for now but support will be dropped at some time in the future. If the
init script in question is one of your own, you need to fix it, otherwise
wait for the maintainer to fix it.

When the message changes from deprecated to obsolete, then it is time to
worry.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Can vegetarians eat animal crackers?

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[gentoo-user] Re: runscript is deprecated; please use openrc-run instead

[James]

Gevisz <gevisz <at> gmail.com> writes:



> Sorry, but I do not understand the word "shebang" in this context.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_(Unix)



hth,
James

Re: [gentoo-user] runscript is deprecated; please use openrc-run instead

[Gevisz]

On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 13:52:37 +0100 Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sunday 12 Apr 2015 12:27:33 Gevisz wrote:
> > On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 13:04:40 +0200 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> > > On 12/04/2015 12:48, Gevisz wrote:
> > > > Quite for a long time, while booting my Gentoo system,
> > > > I get the following message message:
> > > > 
> > > > "runscript is deprecated; please use openrc-run instead"
> > > > 
> > > > What shall I do to fix this issue accept for reinstallig
> > > > my Gentoo system anew?
> > > 
> > > Do nothing.
> > 
> > Thank you for your answer but why that message appear at all, then?
> > 
> > > runscript is the shebang for init scripts for various services,
> > > runscript and openrc-run are both provided by openrc.
> > 
> > Sorry, but I do not understand the word "shebang" in this context.
> 
> Some (older) service startup script is starting with a:
> 
> #!/sbin/runscript
> 
> shebang, instead of the openrc equivalent:
> 
> #!/sbin/openrc-run
> 
> If you look in your /etc/init.d/ scripts you will see that there quite a few 
> that still start with the runscript shebang.

Yes, you are right. Thank you for explanation.

> Eventually ebuilds will update their startup scripts to use the openrc syntax, 
> unless systemd takes over the world and openrc is abandoned.
> 
> 
> > > and most important - what effect if any does the problem have?
> > 
> > So far, no noticeable effects accept for the warning message above.
> > 
> > > I can't tell if your system boots normally or if it blows
> > > up and eats your kittens.
> > 
> > Shall I wait for that to happen before starting to worry? :)
> 
> No, because after it eats your kittens it will drink your beer.

It is impossible!

Because I do not drink beer at all. :)

Re: [gentoo-user] runscript is deprecated; please use openrc-run instead

[Gevisz]

On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 16:13:24 +0100 Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:

> On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 14:27:33 +0300, Gevisz wrote:
> 
> > > Do nothing.  
> > 
> > Thank you for your answer but why that message appear at all, then?
> 
> Because the message say deprecated, which means it will continue to work
> for now but support will be dropped at some time in the future. If the
> init script in question is one of your own, you need to fix it, otherwise
> wait for the maintainer to fix it.
> 
> When the message changes from deprecated to obsolete, then it is time to
> worry.

Ok. Thank you for explanation.

Re: [gentoo-user] runscript is deprecated; please use openrc-run instead

[Alan McKinnon]

On 12/04/2015 13:27, Gevisz wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 13:04:40 +0200 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 12/04/2015 12:48, Gevisz wrote:
>>> Quite for a long time, while booting my Gentoo system,
>>> I get the following message message:
>>>
>>> "runscript is deprecated; please use openrc-run instead"
>>>
>>> What shall I do to fix this issue accept for reinstallig
>>> my Gentoo system anew?
>>>  
>>
>> Do nothing.
> 
> Thank you for your answer but why that message appear at all, then?
> 
>> runscript is the shebang for init scripts for various services,
>> runscript and openrc-run are both provided by openrc.
> 
> Sorry, but I do not understand the word "shebang" in this context.

Google it.


> Shall I wait for that to happen before starting to worry? :) 


There is nothing to worry about. runscript still exists, you still have
it and it works exactly the way it always did. It is not obsolete or
deleted, it is deprectaed.

Please Google the software term "deprecate", you need to learn how this
part of ecosystems work. No answer to any question you have asked will
make sense till you have this background information


-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com