port to freebsd #795
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I can't think of any features that won't work on BSD. Even DBus-notifications should work. We just need someone with a FreeBSD desktop to test it. :-) |
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Note: other *BSD are of course also welcome. I just mentioned FreeBSD because I know pyinstaller supports it and borg also offers fat binaries for FreeBSD. Besides that part, other BSDs should work as well. |
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Closing this, as it's included in #126 . |
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Well, it is a requirement for #126, but first getting it running and tested and then packaging it as a fat binary are still different things. |
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This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions. |
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Maybe usage of a stalebot should be reconsidered. I often find it annoying if a brainless bot closes stuff (or tags as stale and then closes soon later) that is not done / not fixed, just because there was no activity for some time. |
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We do get a lot of support requests and questions recently. I'd like to close those after some time. Any issue that has a useful label is already excluded. For those one I wasn't sure, but let's add "task" for now. |
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See here for the labels we keep open forever: https://github.com/borgbase/vorta/blob/master/.github/stale.yml#L6 |
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That helps a bit, but only if a maintainer has time to put such a label. If not, the dumb bot might still close valid issues. |
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We usually label every issue properly when it comes in or when new information emerges. So I don't worry much about that part. Worth a try. |
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freebsd is a quite popular platform and i guess vorta could be easily run there.
i don't use freebsd myself, so i won't do the porting / testing, but wanted to put some notes here for whoever wants to help with it:
as vorta runs on linux and macOS already, i do not expect major complications with the port, should mostly just work "as is".
a fat binary made with PyInstaller could be offered for freebsd also - PyInstaller supports freebsd and the vorta.spec file should just work. when binaries are built on a specific freebsd version, it is likely that they run on any as old or newer freebsd version, so building on a relatively old (but still supported) version might be preferable.
there is a borg fat binary for freebsd64, it needs to be put into
bin/(asbin/borg) before building the vorta fat binary (if you want it included and not requireborgto be already available on the target system)Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
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