Hi,
I tried to get hobbit compiling and running on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD[1]. Getting it to compile was quite easy, getting it run, too, but getting it work isn't[2].
[1] http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/ [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=458417
Getting the client run needed some more files to exist. Now I've got an ugly but running client sending data to my hobbit server. Unfortunately the server drops it with the message
2008-01-25 22:41:09 No client backend for OS 'gnu/kfreebsd' sent by [...]
In noticed that the reason for this is an OS switch() in hobbitd/hobbitd_client.c line 1763 ff.
Back to the client:
Adding a new OS in general isn't difficult with hobbit on the client side, you just copy some shell script, perhaps edit it and it works. With GNU/kFreeBSD it looks a little bit different:
14/0/0 root at c-metisse:pts/ttyp3 22:49:51 [~] # uname -o GNU/kFreeBSD 15/0/0 root at c-metisse:pts/ttyp3 22:49:54 [~] #
There is a slash in the OS name. So all my workarounds are quite ugly since they all involve the creation of directories to allow filenames like
hobbitclient-gnu/kfreebsd.sh
Not nice, but works.
The solution suggested by the GNU/kFreeBSD developers for this problem is to replace all slashes in the output of "uname -o" with underscores (written in Perlish: s(/)(_)g) so that the above example would look like this:
hobbitclient-gnu_kfreebsd.sh
Hernik: How do you think that problem is solved best from your view as hobbit developer? You probably have more an idea which code may need to be patch. I've lost the overview at the moment, since hobbit seems to use the output of "uname -o" in a lot of places. Do you think, you can generate a patch I can test? If not: with a few pointers to most of the places in the source, I probably also can try to create a patch on my own... Alternatively I should be able to get you an account on a Test machine running Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. (I'm currently testing inside a virtual machine using QEMU/KVM.)
P.S.: No, it's not for the job this time, it's for my own boxes and those of friends. :-)
Kind regards, Axel Beckert-- Axel Beckert <beckert at phys.ethz.ch> support: +41 44 633 2668 IT Support Group, HPR E 86.1 voice: +41 44 633 4189 Departement Physik, ETH Zurich fax: +41 44 633 1239 CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/