Re: Upstart & kFreeBSD port for Debian
On 22 May 2013 03:09, Guillem Jover <guillem@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 <biebl@debian.org> wrote:
>> > Am 22.05.2013 02:00, schrieb Dmitrijs Ledkovs:
>> >> On 21 May 2013 21:53, Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@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.
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