+1! That's great. When we were first looking into Evergreen I tried to see what would be involved to get it into NetBSD's pkgsrc, it looks like it's getting much closer to being possible.
Jason -- Jason Boyer, IT Specialist Jackson County Public Library 303 W Second St Seymour, IN 47274 [email protected] p (812) 522-3412 ext. 227 f (812) 522-5456 On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Bill Erickson <[email protected]>wrote: > > Hi all, > > If there are any FreeBSD fans out there, I spent a little time recently > getting EG up and running and took some notes along the way. As > expected, I hit a few bumps, but nothing too bad. > > I got as far as logging into the tpac and the staff client. (There are > some issues with z39 import and vandelay, but basic functions seem to > work OK). > > http://yeti.esilibrary.com/~berick/docs/eg_freebsd.html > > My notes reference new OpenSRF and Evergreen collab branches for > managing some minor compatibility changes. They're both under > working/collab/berick/bsd-compat. They still need some work, but > once they're smoothed out, I'll open LP pull requests. Even if *BSD > is not generally used, the patches should help improve general > portability. > > Comments welcome. I'm curious about the level of interest in FreeBSD > for Evergreen users and whether it would be worthwhile to create and > maintain real OpenSRF/Evergreen install targets. > > Happy compiling! > > -b > > -- > Bill Erickson > | Senior Software Developer > | Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source > | phone: 877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) > | email: [email protected] > | web: http://esilibrary.com >
