Florent Thoumie

Sorry folks for the delay, I’ve been a bit behind on mail and if you sent me one about planet freebsd, I probably didn’t answer.

Anyway, it’s fixed. Enjoy! (again)

There you go, fresh X.org ports in your favorite ports tree, a week after it’s been released. Announce is here

At the same time, I’ve marked XFree86-4 as DEPRECATED and should be gone before 2008. Hurray \o/

I committed the consolekit port some days ago and added an option to gdm to use it. It’s been working well so far, though you can’t do much right now (except ck-list-sessions). Some hours later, the patches have been integrated in the freedesktop repo.

Marcus also wrote a kqueue backend for latest version of PolicyKit, still to be tested. I don’t think it’s backwards compatible so it probably will have to wait a bit before it ends up in ports.

Ok, so if you’ve been reading planet.gnome.org lately, you’ve read a couple of posts about PackageKit. I’m not going to write a lot about it cause reading Richard’s blog is the best source of information you’ll get.

PackageKit depends on recent versions of all the freedesktop hype stuff (PolicyKit, ConsoleKit, ...). While we have PolicyKit in FreeBSD ports, the version is a bit outdated. The latest one depends on inotify (IIRC) which I’ve disabled in a private git repo to make it compile properly and ConsoleKit. I’ll push these changes tomorrow. Marcus wrote the FreeBSD backend for ConsoleKit faster than I wrote the email saying I started to work on it. The repos are at http://git.xbsd.org/ if you feel like doing some FreeBSD porting stuff (hint: git-clone http://git.xbsd.org/freedesktop/blah.git, where blah is consolekit, policykit or packagekit).

Ok, I’ve finally committed the update to openbgpd, so it’s now at 4.0. I’ll probably pass the maintainership to farrokhi@ because I’m quite busy these days and I’ve been poorly maintaining it anyway. So you can start bothering him now :-). There’s still the openospf update pending, if you haven’t tried it, please do it now (ports/106114).

Following Kris Moore (the guy behind PC-BSD, but I’m sure you knew that already) request, I’ve also updated the X.org nv driver to 2.1.2 cause they’ve added a bunch of ids for latest NVidia GPUs.

As some people may know, I’ve started working on a iidc(4) driver last week to be able to use my iSight under FreeBSD. Work was soon stopped because of some bug that simokawa@ fixed during the week-end. Now I’m able to read registers from the camera.

Code can be seen at git.xbsd.org. Don’t expect anything working anytime soon cause it’s my first (large) kernel project. I’m not too good at finishing projects but I almost managed to do it for xorg, so this one could come to fruition at some point. The driver will use the Video4Linux (1 or 2, most likely) API, so most linux apps should just work (like pwc(4)).

Here is an updated port for net/openbgpd. I’d like to get at least one or two successful reports before it goes in CVS.

Thanks to Thomas Vogt for relaying claudio@ patches.

I’ve received a couple of mails about openbgpd and openospfd ports in last few months (and I probably forgot to answer some of them, apologies for that).

I haven’t had the chance to look at them recently but hope to do it in a near future. If someone managed to get a recent snapshot (or a stable release) working, please get in touch with me.

I’ve been silent lately, both on mailing lists and on this blog but rest assured, I’m still alive.

If you follow ports commits, you may have noticed that I’ve added a couple of telepathy ports right before the X.org freeze and updated them to the latest versions available yesterday. I’ve set MAINTAINER to gnome@ for those ports but I’ll be looking after them.

That being said, I wouldn’t mind some help, especially to port mission-control, farsight, empathy (and a couple of other ports). It’s not that hard, but it’d be nice to have. Send me an email if you’re interested.

I just got this email from Matt Olander. I’m not sure my blog is better than any blog from Planet FreeBSD but here it is:

Hey Florent!

FreeBSDMall has put up a few new t-shirts. Either Murray or I will post to the lists about them but it’d be awesome if you mention it in your blog and help spread the word

Since FreeBSD Mall does silk screen (instead of digital print like Cafepress), it’s expensive to “test out” new designs. Silk screen is higher quality and lasts longer, but isn’t on-demand. We have to get the shirts ordered, printed, and stocked in the warehouse before we start taking orders. So, before we can come out with more designs, these have to start selling a bit first.

We’ve got some neat posters coming out, too!

later, -matt

So you know what you have to do now.