The what should be updated in -current thread

Originally Posted by larryhaja It has been said in a few posts, but I also would like to see procps upgraded for procps-ng. Since procsp is packaged with psinfo and psmisc, it would be nice to see psinfo upgraded to psinfo-ng. I updated procps to procps-ng on my slackware64 machine because the newer sysctl uses /etc/sysctl.d directory in its path. Some packages on SBo put files into /etc/sysctl.d and aren't activated unless they are put into the /etc/sysctl.conf file or manually added by setting something up in /etc/rc.d/rc.local (or update /etc/rc.d/rc.S). For example, libvirtd puts a sysctl file in /etc/sysctl.d/libvirtd.conf. Upgrading just saves me the time rather than remembering to run it manually. I also had to update /etc/rc.d/rc.S to account for this.

THIS is what I meant when I asked for an example of why we might *want* to replace procps - thanks!

If you've got local changes for this build already done, please send them along and save me some effort :-)

It would be nice if Slackware could keep the old procps top(1), but if not, then I understand. (qv post #62 in current thread)

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Robby, I posted this, if you haven't seen it already.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ch-4175532269/

It contains a slightly edited SlackBuild file and a rollup patch for various defined fixes including a badly needed patch for partition detection methods.

This would effectively update Grub-2.00 to Grub-2.02~beta2.

Already built and tested and uploaded to my public repository I have available finally.

The glibc slack-desc file may be updated, as it says that Ulrich Drepper is the current maintainer, what is not correct any more. New Description from
http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/ or
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/...r06/glibc.html
may be ok for example.

If I have time, I'll try and get something for psmisc and procps-ng into my repo for public testing.

Would like to get these done before the new version is moved towards finalization so they can get official inclusion and testing.

https://github.com/Dlackware/systemd...aster/a/procps

The procps is procps-ng
Been using this for some while now
Please read the SlackBuild carefully as systemd is enabled in configure.

I can put psmisc into the rebuilds directory on github.

I haven't read every post so it may have already been said. But updating sip would be nice. I need an updated sip so that PyQt5 can be compiled. This in turn allows the newer 2.x version of calibre to compile as well.

sip would be a nice to have update but definitely not needed.

Originally Posted by larryhaja I haven't read every post so it may have already been said.

That's where the 'Search this thread' feature comes in handy. ;-)

If someone has time to test this new wicd 1.7.3 patch we may get lucky. :-)

https://projects.archlinux.org/svnto...=packages/wicd

https://projects.archlinux.org/svnto...=packages/wicd

How about an update to PHP. We are on 5.4 which is dropping support in 6 months:
http://php.net/supported-versions.php

End of support for 5.5 is only a year away.

Current is 5.6

Might be time for an update.

I have php 5.6 in my queue, together with mariadb 10.0. But there's some more important things that should be updated first before we start thinking of those two (icu4c, boost to name a few)

Originally Posted by ryanpcmcquen If someone has time to test this new wicd 1.7.3 patch we may get lucky. :-) https://projects.archlinux.org/svnto...=packages/wicd https://projects.archlinux.org/svnto...=packages/wicd

I did not have any luck (although I tested on a stable machine). Arch has moved it into the main repo but the patches looked the same ... perhaps they are not.

Originally Posted by ReaperX7 This would effectively update Grub-2.00 to Grub-2.02~beta2.

Do you know what the upstream release plan is for Grub-2.02? The only roadmap I can find is from 2013, my search ability is lacking. I wonder what the chances are of it making -current. TIA

I'm not sure. I followed the work on Grub up till about that time and then it just becomes patchworks, of which we have all of the current patches. The rest of the work looks to go towards add-ons like os-prober.

After that, I think the project just stalled.

Ugh, icu4c, how many times have they broken ABI in the last 6 months, 10 times?