openscap Compatibility with newer verison of procps

There has been some changes with the newer (> 4.0) version of procps(-ng) library. It seems they no longer include proc/devname.h, which is needed for the files src/OVAL/probes/unix/process58_probe.c and src/OVAL/probes/unix/process_probe.c.

Not sure what's best action moving forward, politely ask procps maintainer to include the header again, or just rely on compat/dev_to_tty.c.

Nov 21 '22 22:11 havardAasen

Well, Fedora and RHEL are using compat/dev_to_tty.c without procps-ng-devel. So far I'm not aware of any problems related to that.

Nov 21 '22 23:11 evgenyz

I mean, default package configuration is not to ask for that header. Which is the config most of our users are facing.

Nov 21 '22 23:11 evgenyz

Hmmm, yes, the only reference I could find in the documentation was this. https://github.com/OpenSCAP/openscap/blob/d10c40e43e1c627912374b8fbdfa1a84967fcc92/docs/developer/developer.adoc#L156

And that's not the development package.

Could the references in the code and CMake be removed? This will likely only lead to confusion, especially with the latest release of procps that' don't even have the necessary header. Then we are forced to use compat/dev_to_tty.c regardless.

Nov 22 '22 18:11 havardAasen