[avahi] Porting Avahi to OpenBSD

[Sebastien Estienne]

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 <zml+avahi at zml.net> 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, Volker.Wiegand at t-online.de <Volker.Wiegand at t-online.de> 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
> >
> >
> >
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Sebastien Estienne