From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 1 19:41:44 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 6172616A468; Tue, 1 Jan 2008 19:41:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmmtao101.cox.net (eastrmmtao101.cox.net [68.230.240.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D134F13C4F3; Tue, 1 Jan 2008 19:41:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmimpo02.cox.net ([68.1.16.120]) by eastrmmtao101.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20080101194143.ODKL129.eastrmmtao101.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net>; Tue, 1 Jan 2008 14:41:43 -0500 Received: from mezz.mezzweb.com ([24.255.149.218]) by eastrmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id Xvh91Y00V4iy4EG0000000; Tue, 01 Jan 2008 14:41:10 -0500 Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:42:28 -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: <1199214593.28014.46.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> 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 19:41:44 -0000 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 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