Re: [Porting] Packages needed by DSA

[Petr Salinger <Petr.Salinger@seznam.cz>]

> If you want to start to do porting work, here is the list of packages
> that we need asap (they are needed by DSA):
> - timeout

Replaced by current coreutils.

> - moreutils

Do they need all the utilities ?
The only problematic one is ifdata,
the parallel is easily fixable, the rest build fine:

--- parallel.c
+++ parallel.c
@@ -64,7 +64,9 @@
        return;
 }

-int wait_for_child(int options) {
+int wait_for_child(int options) { /* zero or WNOHANG */
+
+#if defined (__linux__)
        id_t id_ignored = 0;
        siginfo_t infop;

@@ -74,6 +76,16 @@
                return -1; /* Nothing to wait for */
        if (infop.si_code == CLD_EXITED)
                return infop.si_status;
+#else
+       int status;
+       int rv;
+
+       rv = waitpid(-1, &status, options);
+       if (rv < 0)
+               return -1; /* Nothing to wait for */
+       if (WIFEXITED(status))
+               return WEXITSTATUS(status);
+#endif
        return 1;
 }


> - lsof
The recent upstream have some support for FreeBSD.

> - nagios-plugins-basic
In fact it is already built, but it depends on iputils-ping.
Would any ping suffice or is really the one from iputils-ping needed ?

Petr