On 22 May 2013 03:09, Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi! > > On Wed, 2013-05-22 at 01:47:42 +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: >> On 22 May 2013 01:16, Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> wrote: >> > Am 22.05.2013 02:00, schrieb Dmitrijs Ledkovs: >> >> On 21 May 2013 21:53, Lucas Nussbaum <lu...@debian.org> wrote: >> >>> On 20/05/13 at 18:19 +0200, Michael Stapelberg wrote: >> >>> - Neither systemd nor upstart are likely to be ported to kfreebsd soon, >> >>> as they both rely on many Linux-specific features and interfaces. > >> >> Well, Colin Watson, Matthias Klose, Steve Langasek, James Hunt and I >> >> have discussed the state of the kfreebsd possibility a few times over >> >> the past year or so. > > I started porting libnih and upstart to GNU/kFreeBSD some months ago, > just for fun, whenever I had nothing else to do. But then I'm not > interested in assigning my copyright to a for-profit company that is > not employing me (and no, this is not a job request); so I didn't > post anything yet, because I don't use upstart, didn't want to promise > anything (still don't), and it would present as an _interesting_ > situation for the Debian upstart maintainers (either reject the > patches or carry them forever as a small fork...). >
For libnih: fork it, push it, merge propose into https://github.com/keybuk/libnih As Steve already mentioned, Scott is the upstream for libnih. >> >> It boiled down to: if we have waitid & inotify it should be possible >> >> to have a reasonable stab at doing a kfreebsd port for the system-wide >> >> upstart init (with libnih and mountall). For session init we currently >> >> do use prctl to set subreaper, but one can still have session upstart >> >> init without that syscall. >> >> >> >> Was there something else needed? Or can anyone else spot other "big >> >> incompatible" chunks of code? >> > >> > https://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2009/07/msg00122.html > > I think I've posted this multiple times, whenever those items lists > are posted: > > <http://www.hadrons.org/~guillem/debian/ports/porting> > And somehow I have missed it up until now. Very nice guide. I like it a lot. Concise pointers =) Regards, Dmitrijs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CANBHLUhwJQKsshXv+_5UkrH=8kyxbdr3vmpr1otl0hu-eij...@mail.gmail.com
