fam

[Jose M Rodriguez]

El Sábado, 19 de Marzo de 2005 09:25, Joe Marcus Clarke escribió:
> On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 09:22 +0100, Jose M Rodriguez wrote:
> > El Sábado, 19 de Marzo de 2005 06:35, Joe Marcus Clarke escribió:
> > > On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 19:04 -0800, Murray Stokely wrote:
> > > > How important is fam to GNOME.  Should we add a commented out
> > > > entry to inetd.conf?  Any comment on PR: conf/74004?
> > >
> > > I'll say it's critical to a user-friendly GNOME installation.
> > > Without FAM, you will need to restart gnome-panel each time you
> > > install new software, the GTK+ file chooser doesn't update
> > > dynamically nor does Nautilus (or anything related to the file
> > > system).  I can't imagine actually using a GNOME installation
> > > without FAM.
> > >
> > > I think a commented out entry in /etc/inetd.conf would be good. 
> > > I think teaching the devel/fam port to create an active entry in
> > > inetd.conf to be better.
> >
> > If this is desired, an /etc/rc.d/famd would be better. famd can be
> > work in daemon mode without the aids of inetd.
> >
> > And, if we import the new famd from sgi (2.7.0) and the netbsd imon
> > (kqueue based), we can get a great improvement.  I've this running
> > at work with freebsd4 and pkgsrc.
>
> Send in the port.  If it works better than the current fam port, I
> see no reason why mbr wouldn't want to commit it.
>
> Joe
>

It's not so easy.  NetBSD ports machinery (buildlink3) isn't close to 
FreeBSD one.

You can build and use NetBSD pkgsrc in FreeBSD (we use this in 
FreeBSD/OpenBSD/Slackware/Solaris), but move a port from pkgsrc to 
another port system is different.

I point this allready to mbr, and will work in a patchset time 
permitting.

> > --
> >   josemi
> >
> > > Joe
> > >
> > > > - Murray
> > > >

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  josemi