Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:42:28 -0600 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "Joe Marcus Clarke" <marcus@freebsd.org> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, Luis Medinas <lmedinas@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Brasero on FreeBSD Message-ID: <op.t39no2sm9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> In-Reply-To: <1199214593.28014.46.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <1199159561.6089.2.camel@fermi> <1199214593.28014.46.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:09:53 -0600, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.or= g> = wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 03:52 +0000, Luis Medinas wrote: >> Hi >> >> As a co-maintainer of Brasero i'm tempted to ask why FreeBSD hasn't >> brasero 0.7.0 on the ports tree. None of us are using FreeBSD sadly b= ut >> we can work together to make it work better for FreeBSD if it isn't >> working atm. Please bump brasero. > > First, this is very encouraging. I love it when maintainers make an > effort to help port their application to another platform. Thank you.= I second. > Now for the bad news. We have quite a few users that want to use > brasero on FreeBSD, but we haven't had anyone step up to fix the > problems. Admittedly, I offered to look into this a while ago, but fe= ll ahze said that he can try to take a look at it, but he was very busy too= . > behind with non-FreeBSD work, and the FreeBSD hal port update. Here's= > were we stand with brasero now: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3Dports/115240 : This looks= > like a problem with brasero overriding PATH for a Linux-centric > environment. mkisofs is found in /usr/local/bin on FreeBSD. > Admittedly, I have not looked into the brasero code to determine if th= is > is the case, or if this problem is still relevant in 0.7.0. > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3Dports/117364 : This is a = bit > nastier. FreeBSD's cdrecord only supports the legacy bus,target,lun > notation. Our HAL exports this address via the block.freebsd.cam_path= > property, and I hacked nautilus-cd-burner to support this property on > FreeBSD. > > If you have suggestions on these problems, I would be happy to get > brasero up to 0.7.0 and working properly on FreeBSD. In the changelog of 0.7.0, 'New Plugin system for burning backends.'. = Maybe it will be easier for us to update it in our ports tree. I can giv= e = it a shot. I wasn't able to do that with 0.6.x because it required someo= ne = with C/SCSI knowledge. Cheers, Mezz > Joe -- = mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team - FreeBSD Multimedia Hat (ports, not src) http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org http://wiki.freebsd.org/multimedia - multimedia@FreeBSD.org
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