On 15/08/2015 18:38, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Pierre Labastie wrote: >> On 15/08/2015 02:41, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >>> We are getting pretty close to the package freeze for LFS-7.8. I am >>> currently >>> waiting for util-linux-2.27 which should be released very soon. >>> >>> Doe anyone know of any other LFS packages that have imminent releases of new >>> stable packages? > >> Dunno if you are monitoring the procps list: upstream have just released a >> new >> point version, but it seems they have done some major overhaul on the >> library. >> I could ask them whether they plan to release a new version soon, if you >> wish. > > Do you now of any regressions? Everything seemed to be OK when I added it to > -dev a few days ago, but I haven't used it for BLFS yet. > > -- Bruce > >
Rereading my message, I think I have not been clear enough, sorry. The recent new point version seems to be OK, but it does not include the library overhaul. It seems upstream want to release another version soon with the new version of the library, but I am not sure when. Here is the text for the announcement of the 3.3.11 version, with some information about the new API: -------------- procps version 3.3.11 is now released! This release we have fixed many bugs and made procps more robust for those odd corner cases. See the NEWS file for details. The most significant new feature in this release is the support for LXC containers in both ps and top. The source files can be found at both sourceforge and gitlab at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/procps-ng/files/Production/ https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/tags My thanks to the procps co-maintainers, bug reporters and merge/patch authors. What's Next? There has been a large amount of work on the library API. This is not visible to this release as it is on a different git branch called newlib. The library is getting a complete overhaul and will look completely different to the old libproc/libprocps set. A decision hasn't been made when newlib branch will merge into master, but we will do it once we're happy the library and its API have settled. This change will be the largest change to procps' library in its 20-odd year history but will mean the library will use common modern practices for libraries. -------------- Well, maybe it is not worth waiting anyway, since a major overhaul may mean some regression... Pierre -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
