Bug 375275

Summary:	sys-process/procps-3.2.8: include debian's patchset
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Dieter Ries <clip2>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	pacho
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://procps.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/procps/procps/
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Ebuild which uses those patches Ebuild which uses those patches, cleaned up patches to procps

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 gentoo-dev

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 gentoo-dev

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.