[LEDE-DEV] Request for help: Getting 3rd party libs/apps up to date

[Daniel Engberg]

Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca has submitted a patch to update libs/elflibs, 
https://github.com/lede-project/source/pull/416

Current status:

tools/libtool - Move to 2.4.6
tools/lzma-old - Move to 4.32.7 (http://tukaani.org/lzma/)? Newer 
versions available at link below
tools/lzma - Move to 16.03 
(https://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/files/LZMA%20SDK/) ?
tools/mkimage - Move to a newer snapshot, reduces amount of patches?
tools/mklibs - Move to 0.1.42
tools/squashfs4 - Update to 4.3

package/utils/mdadm - Update to 3.4
package/utils/fuse - Update to 2.9.7
package/utils/lua - Update to 5.3.3 (Should be added as a separate 
package)
network/utils/iproute2 - Update to 4.8.0 <-- New version released
network/utils/iptables - Update to 1.6.0
network/utils/iw - Update to 4.7
network/utils/tcpdump - Update to 4.8.0

libs/elflibs - WIP, Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca 
(https://github.com/lede-project/source/pull/416)
libs/gettext-full - Updated by Dirk Neukirchen
libs/libiconv-full - Update to 1.14
libs/libpcap - WIP, Michael Richardson
libs/ncurses - Update to 6.0
libs/libbsd - Update to 0.8.3 (needs a.out.h, I got stuck on that)
libs/libtool - Update to 2.4.6 (needs m4, blocking)

Many thanks for helping out!

Daniel

On 2016-10-13 10:08, Daniel Engberg wrote:
> To follow up in order to prevent duplicate work,
> 
> Michael Richardson has offered to update libpcap in the beginning of 
> November
> Dirk Neukirchen has submitted a patch for libs/gettext-full 0.19.8.1
> which has been accepted - http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/681336/
> Karl Palsson and Dirk Feytons have expressed concerns updating the
> current version Lua due to possible performance regressions and code
> (language) incompatibilities. Suggested upgrade path is to create a
> separate package and go from there, pretty much like python 2 vs 3.
> 
> Many thanks for the response and commitment to this request.
> 
> Best regards,
> Daniel
> 
> 
> On 2016-10-10 12:24, Daniel Engberg wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I've been trying with my limited set of skills to get most packages
>> and libraries up to date but I'm getting stuck on these below since
>> they have a lot patches and I can't adapt these for current versions
>> or even make out if they're all even needed. Since there's going to be
>> a release later on I think it's a good idea to keep everything up to
>> date even if it may cost a bit of storage space since it's going to
>> help porting new software and easier to report bugs etc upstream if
>> needed. I also think that if we're going to do this we should get it
>> in tree as soon as possible so there's time to fix occasional issues
>> that may occur. If anyone wants to take a stab at these I think it
>> would be beneficial to the project in the end.
>> 
>> tools/libtool - Move to 2.4.6
>> tools/lzma-old - Move to 4.32.7 (http://tukaani.org/lzma/) ? I'm not
>> sure how "old" this needs to be, newer versions are also available at
>> the link below (sourceforge.net).
>> tools/lzma - Move to 16.03
>> (https://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/files/LZMA%20SDK/) ?
>> tools/mkimage - Move to a newer snapshot, reduces amount of patches?
>> tools/mklibs - Move to 0.1.42
>> tools/squashfs4 - Update to 4.3
>> 
>> package/utils/mdadm - Update to 3.4
>> package/utils/fuse - Update to 2.9.7
>> package/utils/lua - Update to 5.3.3 (some lang regressions may occur?)
>> network/utils/iproute2 - Update to 4.7.0
>> network/utils/iptables - Update to 1.6.0
>> network/utils/iw - Update to 4.7
>> network/utils/tcpdump - Update to 4.8.0
>> 
>> libs/elflibs - Update to 0.167
>> libs/gettext-full - Update to 0.19.8
>> libs/libiconv-full - Update to 1.14
>> libs/libpcap - Update to 1.8.0
>> libs/ncurses - Update to 6.0
>> libs/libbsd - Update to 0.8.3 (needs a.out.h, I got stuck on that)
>> libs/libtool - Update to 2.4.6 (needs m4, blocking)
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Daniel Engberg