Bug 6952

Summary: Replace procps with procps-ng
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core Reporter: Paul Barker <paul>
Component: coreAssignee: Saul Wold <sgw>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: Medium CC: bluelightning, meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher
Version: 1.8   
Target Milestone: 1.8 M2   
Hardware: All   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: Don't know

Description Paul Barker 2014-11-11 17:35:25 UTC
procps upstream looks to be no longer active. The last change to the CVS repository seems to be 3 years old and the mailing list archive is mostly just full of spam.

It looks like Arch Linux, Debian, Fedora and openSUSE have moved on to procps-ng. I suggest we do the same during the v1.8 development cycle if possible. procps-ng is actively developed and looks to be open to patches.