Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 14:23:30 -0800 (PST) From: Vassilis Laganakos <vassilis.laganakos@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Freebsd-dropbox port Message-ID: <597907.44338.qm@web112119.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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Hello,
I am not sure if this is the right place to ask questions about creating new
ports,
so please let me know if this not the case :-)
I was interested in getting Dropbox to work on FreeBSD. I'm running RELENG-8
and I've pulled together an initial skeleton for the 2 ports-to-be, that
currently
reside at:
https://github.com/vassilisl/freebsd-dropbox
They need some more testing regarding dependencies and some more investigation
in where things need to be installed (mainly linux-dropbox part, the
nautilus-dropbox
is happy :-) ). It is using the Linux pre-built binaries that are provided with
one part
of the application; and run through Linuxulator (linux_base-f10)
Unfortunally though, the thing does not work due to Linuxulator not emulating
the
inotify (in FreeBSD there is something similar: kqueue) :-(
There have been discussions and some activity behind this though.
(e.g. http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?page=2&id=5627)
Never the less, I thought of dropping an email here to see if anyone else is
interested,
and maybe help with advice/pointers/info/code :-)
Kind regards,
Vassilis L.
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