Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2008 15:00:33 -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.t39ra7dp9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> In-Reply-To: <op.t39no2sm9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> References: <1199159561.6089.2.camel@fermi> <1199214593.28014.46.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <op.t39no2sm9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com>
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On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:42:28 -0600, Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> wro= te: > On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:09:53 -0600, Joe Marcus Clarke = > <marcus@FreeBSD.org> 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 = but >>> 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 f= ell > > ahze said that he can try to take a look at it, but he was very busy t= oo. > >> 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 look= s >> 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 t= his >> 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_pat= h >> 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 = > give it a shot. I wasn't able to do that with 0.6.x because it require= d = > someone with C/SCSI knowledge. Well, the 0.6.x and 0.7.x are same for me. I couldn't get src/scsi/* to = = compile, so someone will have to do it. > 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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