From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 1 20:59:49 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5F1B16A418; Tue, 1 Jan 2008 20:59:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmmtao105.cox.net (eastrmmtao105.cox.net [68.230.240.47]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FFFB13C455; Tue, 1 Jan 2008 20:59:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmimpo02.cox.net ([68.1.16.120]) by eastrmmtao105.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20080101205948.EMTV15951.eastrmmtao105.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net>; Tue, 1 Jan 2008 15:59:48 -0500 Received: from mezz.mezzweb.com ([24.255.149.218]) by eastrmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id XwzF1Y0064iy4EG0000000; Tue, 01 Jan 2008 15:59:15 -0500 Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2008 15:00:33 -0600 To: "Joe Marcus Clarke" From: "Jeremy Messenger" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1199159561.6089.2.camel@fermi> <1199214593.28014.46.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Message-ID: In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.25 (Linux) Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, Luis Medinas Subject: Re: Brasero on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2008 20:59:49 -0000 On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:42:28 -0600, Jeremy Messenger wro= te: > On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:09:53 -0600, Joe Marcus Clarke = > 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