This weekend procps-ng version 3.3.3 was tagged and released for distribution. There have been many patches and fixes involved in this release as we move from an unchanging static sort of code into something that is easier to maintain and build on various architectures. The good thing is I’m down to 1 or 2 patches…
Following up from the upstream release of a new procps, the Debian packages have also been updated. This upload has a significant change in that, I hope, procps is now multi-arch compliant. To make this happen, the libprocps library is now in it’s own package, separate from the binaries. It also means that if you…
procps-ng version 3.3.2 was released today. This version fixes some bugs introduced in version 3.3.1 as well as a number of enhancements. Below is the most significant set of changes that 3.3.2 brings. NLS The most visible change is that procps-ng is now international. The NLS changes took a long windy path but we got…
This is about making procps have a proper library but it really is a generic sort of question. Say you are making a library and a program that uses that library. Now at times you may have convience type functions; procps has them for things like escaping command names or allocation different sorts of memory. …
Procps-ng, the Debian, Fedora and OpenSuSE fork of procps had another release today. This is a bugfix release that fixes some important bugs that have cropped up in 3.3.0 pgrep crashes, pgrep -u not finding processes and a problem with top forest view have all been fixed. An important addition to this release is that…
Coming soon after the upstream procps 3.3.0 being released, the Debian packages have been uploaded tonight. The Debian packages have had the added benefit of being a day late by having a tiny 2 line patch to stop pgrep from crashing. One regression that is on purpose, watch is currently not 8-bit clean again until…
Tonight procps-ng, a fork of procps by developers from Debian, Fedora and SuSE was released. The main goal of the team for this release was to reduce the number of patches we all carry in our respective distributions and learn from each other. As an added bonus, we had one of the original authors of…