Re: FreeBSD Port: net-im/signal-desktop

From: TIM KELLERS <tim_at_beachpatt.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 17:34:02 UTC

On 4/18/24 11:08 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
 > On 4/18/24 15:44, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
 >
 >> "There is no maintainer for this port." :(
 >
 > :((
 >
 >
 >
 >> I see there is an updated version (6.48.1) in a quarterly ports tree
 >> https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/net-im/signal-desktop?h=2024Q2
 >> But why is it missing from the packages?
 >
 > No idea.
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >> I can try to build it my-self in a Poudriere but is 6.48 still working
 >> or is it outdated too?
 >
 > I've got 6.48.1 and it's still wokring, altough of course it might stop
 > any moment. Signal works like that :(
 >
 > It has on glitch though (which I didn't investigate yet): it does not
 > start anymore from XFCE menu, although it works if started from the
 > terminal.
 >
 >   bye
 >      av.
 >
I managed to get desktop-signal 7.5.0 built from source on a 3 day old 
Current.  It took quit a while to gt all of the dependcies rebuilt from 
a fresh install, but I do have it running under KDE6
uname is below, but you can see its on arm64.

Tim

FreeBSD fbsd151 15.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT #0 
main-n269436-73cce7d8886b: Tue Apr 16 12:49:55 EDT 2024 
root@fbsd151:/usr/obj/usr/src/arm64.aarch64/sys/APRIL16 arm64