port to freebsd

[ThomasWaldmann]

freebsd is a quite popular platform and i guess vorta could be easily run there.

i don't use freebsd myself, so i won't do the porting / testing, but wanted to put some notes here for whoever wants to help with it:

• as vorta runs on linux and macOS already, i do not expect major complications with the port, should mostly just work "as is".

• a fat binary made with PyInstaller could be offered for freebsd also - PyInstaller supports freebsd and the vorta.spec file should just work. when binaries are built on a specific freebsd version, it is likely that they run on any as old or newer freebsd version, so building on a relatively old (but still supported) version might be preferable.

• there is a borg fat binary for freebsd64, it needs to be put into bin/ (as bin/borg) before building the vorta fat binary (if you want it included and not require borg to be already available on the target system)

[m3nu]

I can't think of any features that won't work on BSD. Even DBus-notifications should work. We just need someone with a FreeBSD desktop to test it. :-)

[ThomasWaldmann]

Note: other *BSD are of course also welcome.

I just mentioned FreeBSD because I know pyinstaller supports it and borg also offers fat binaries for FreeBSD. Besides that part, other BSDs should work as well.

[m3nu]

Closing this, as it's included in #126 .

[ThomasWaldmann]

Well, it is a requirement for #126, but first getting it running and tested and then packaging it as a fat binary are still different things.

[stale]

This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.

[ThomasWaldmann]

Maybe usage of a stalebot should be reconsidered.

I often find it annoying if a brainless bot closes stuff (or tags as stale and then closes soon later) that is not done / not fixed, just because there was no activity for some time.

[m3nu]

We do get a lot of support requests and questions recently. I'd like to close those after some time.

Any issue that has a useful label is already excluded. For those one I wasn't sure, but let's add "task" for now.

[m3nu]

See here for the labels we keep open forever:

https://github.com/borgbase/vorta/blob/master/.github/stale.yml#L6

[ThomasWaldmann]

That helps a bit, but only if a maintainer has time to put such a label. If not, the dumb bot might still close valid issues.

[m3nu]

We usually label every issue properly when it comes in or when new information emerges. So I don't worry much about that part. Worth a try.