Hello, I wrote the initial support for BSD (OsX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD) some years ago. I did for the fun as i'm not a BSD user at all, except OsX.
As far as i remember osx, freebsd, and netbsd worked for basic things, i didn't test exotic setups like vlan or gateway as i didn't have the hardware to do so. I had trouble with openbsd, avahi-daemon was running but no multicast traffic was generated. By the way, the poor status of the *BSD support in avahi is only a matter of "no maintainer", and we would be really happy if you were interested in being our BSD maintainer. On 9/22/07, Zachary Loafman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's most likely to the lack of a maintainer. The FreeBSD port is > barely maintained - it feels like the port maintainer has given up on > it. I've tried to beat out a lot of the bugs for the FreeBSD version, > so you may want to start with 0.21 and add some of the patches from > any of the tickets matching the word BSD. I don't know the > Open/FreeBSD differences that well, but my guess is that you'll > have a little bit of legwork to fix issues - I certainly ran into some > serious gotchas in the FreeBSD code, and there are several Linux > assumptions in the lower level Avahi code. > > I would be happy to discuss any issues you might run into, though - > I've debugged through a number of them at this point. > > ...Zach > > On 9/21/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > I am interested in porting (or rather completing the work in progress) > > Avahi to OpenBSD. > > > > Before I dig any further (until now I have just offered a patch to > > OpenBSD-ports to update libdaemon from 0.11 to 0.12), I would like to > > make myself known to this project here and seek consent to continue. > > > > I have switched from (SuSE) Linux to OpenBSD about half a year ago. Both > > are fine, but for my purposes (Homeserver for my family) today I prefer > > OpenBSD. I have been using Linux since 1994 and writing UNIX software > > for a living since the late 80's. From 1999 to 2001 I was actually > > employed with SuSE. Today I'm in IT Management of German Railways. > > > > What made me look into Avahi is that my son got his MacBook and I > > learned what Bonjour is. Of course that led me to Avahi. Very clean code > > base, a pleasure to read. > > > > I wondered why OpenBSD is not supported fully until now. Is it (a) lack > > of a maintainer? or (b) technical reasons? or (c) political reasons? If > > (a) - I'd like to offer my service. If (b) - same. If (c) - I'll keep my > > hands off. > > > > If you are interested in my contribution, please let me know, and I'll > > tell you what I have done so far to get it running, and I'd like to ask > > a few questions to help me understand and make it first-class platform > > (like the pthreads thing). > > > > Okay? > > Volker Wiegand > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > avahi mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi > > > _______________________________________________ > avahi mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi > -- Sebastien Estienne _______________________________________________ avahi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
