Re: Signal Desktop packages

On Sunday, April 21, 2024 12:01:30 PM CEST Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> Hello Mikael,
> First of all, I would like to thank you for your work on Signal Desktop,
> even though I know that you have dropped the maintainership. I really
> appreciate it!
> I see that there is now a version 7.5 in the ports tree from you, but
> according to Freshports there is no binary package for
> FreeBSD:13:quarterly or FreeBSD:13:latest. Do you know if there is any
> problem with the Signal build?
> I'm running FreeBSD 13.2 with quarterly packages on my desktop, where
> the last Signal release was 6.42, which no longer works. I'd like to
> update the system and packages, but I'm not sure whether to go for a
> source build if there is some problem with the Signal build that causes
> the package to not be created.

The problem is that devel/electron29 is blacklisted on the build server.
See https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=278049

signal-desktop-7.5.0_1 builds/runs fine here on 14.0/amd64. Note that the
build of electron29 can take rather long even on fast machines.

Also thanks to mikael for the update to 7.5.