Matt Burgess wrote: > On Mon, 2013-01-21 at 15:03 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> See ticket #3095. >> >> I'm starting to write the instructions for updating procps to procps-ng. >> Right now we remove the kill command from procps because it is >> installed in util-linux. Is there really a preference? > > Arguments I can come up with: > > 1) Install the one from procps-ng; 'kill' is most certainly a > proc-related utility, therefore it rightfully belongs to procps-ng > 2) Install the one from util-linux; it has a couple of extra features > (-a, -p, -q) that are missing from the procps-ng version > 3) Don't install either :-) Bash has a 'kill' builtin which most folks > will be using without even thinking about it. A user needs to issue > '/bin/kill' in order to invoke either of the above package's version. > > I've a very slight preference for 1) but really don't mind either way. > 3) was only semi-serious; users may want to use another shell which > happens to lack a 'kill' builtin (dash is one example).
I'm running a test build now with #2. The extra options in #2 don't come into play most of the time since, as you note, the command for most LFS users would have to be specified as /bin/kill. At least for testing, I opted for #2 because that's what we do now. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
