net/freerdp 1.0.0

[Andriy Gapon]

on 08/02/2012 03:20 Doug Barton said the following:
> On 02/07/2012 02:49, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>>
>> I would like to ask you to review and test the port in this PR:
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=164843
> 
> Using the latest shar on up to date 8-stable i386 it seems to run fine.
> FWIW I'm using the port with all of the OPTIONS UNchecked.
> 
> A couple of notes:
> 
> * There is a man page listed in the Makefile, but it doesn't seem to exist.

Weird.  It definitely exists in the source code and here it even gets installed:
$ pkg_info -W /usr/local/man/man1/xfreerdp.1.gz
/usr/local/man/man1/xfreerdp.1.gz was installed by package freerdp-1.0.0

BTW, the content of this manual seems to be a bit outdated.
There used to be a better manual page online at this location:
http://www.freerdp.com/wiki/doku.php?id=documentation:userdocs:xfreerdp_manpage
but now it seems to be gone.   But google cache has it for time being:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Mgy8LqzGuZEJ:www.freerdp.com/wiki/doku.php%3Fid%3Ddocumentation:userdocs:xfreerdp_manpage+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&lr=lang_en|lang_uk&client=firefox-a

> * When I exit I get this: Failed to check xfreerdp file descriptor

I've seen this message too.  Maybe it's something worth reporting upstream.

>> I also would to discuss with the port's users the best approach to updating it.
> 
> Given that I use this daily for $WORK and am heavily dependent on it, I
> really appreciate you asking this question. :)  My suggestion is that
> once you're confident that it is effective as a superset of the old
> version then go ahead and update the port. If it turns out that people
> have trouble with the new version that cannot be addressed in a timely
> manner you can always proceed with adding the -legacy port that you
> mentioned in your PR.

It seems that this version works fine for, but I am not sure about the complete
compatibility.
Actually, I seem to experience some problem with embedding freerdp window inside
another application using -X option.  I wonder if anyone else uses that option
and can report how it works.

> One word of caution for those (like me) who have a button or other
> mechanism to start it from your DE, and are connecting to something
> that's SSL protected. Start it on the command line first, so that you
> can answer the dialog about accepting the SSL certificate. I filled a 2G
> /var/log in less than a minute before I realized why the thing hadn't
> popped up a window yet.

Good advice.  I also had to use --no-nla option to get freerdp working the way
it did before.

BTW, just in case, just noticed this page referenced from the freerdp's main
page: http://remmina.sourceforge.net/
Looks like a potentially useful software.

-- 
Andriy Gapon