Bug 375275 – sys-process/procps-3.2.8: include debian's patchset

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Dieter Ries 2011-07-15 11:38:44 UTC]

procps is not actively maintained anymore, see the CVS history at sourceforge. Still there are issues with procps, like faulty unicode support, no color output in watch etc.
Debian uses ~75 patches to keep procps more state-of-the-art like.
The attached ebuild uses most of those (omitting kfreebsd stuff and one patch that does not seem to add any features and does not work).
It compiles well and everything is working from as far as I can tell.
It not only contains functional changes, but also up to date man pages etc.

I suppose it would also fix bug #291613, but I cannot test it.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Dieter Ries 2011-07-15 11:39:35 UTC]

Created attachment 280119 [details]
Ebuild which uses those patches

[Comment 2 Dieter Ries 2011-07-15 11:40:23 UTC]

Created attachment 280121 [details]
Ebuild which uses those patches, cleaned up

[Comment 3 Dieter Ries 2011-07-15 11:46:10 UTC]

Created attachment 280123 [details]
patches to procps

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2011-07-20 03:53:26 UTC]

Comment on attachment 280121 [details]
Ebuild which uses those patches, cleaned up

ugh, no, this does not scale at all

[Comment 5 SpanKY 2011-07-20 05:47:00 UTC]

procps-3.2.8_p10 uses the debian patchset now

[Comment 6 Dieter Ries 2011-07-22 07:28:35 UTC]

thanks and sorry for the messy ebuild, didn't know that epatch can use a series file.