Brasero on FreeBSD

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:42:28 -0600, Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:09:53 -0600, Joe Marcus Clarke  
> <marcus at 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 fell
>
> 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=ports/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 this
>> is the case, or if this problem is still relevant in 0.7.0.
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/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  
> give it a shot. I wasn't able to do that with 0.6.x because it required  
> 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


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