Airtime on FreeBSD
  • Vote Up0Vote Down levilevi
    Posts: 8Member
    Hi everyone

    Anyone tried to run airtime on freebsd ?

    I couldn't complete all my depencies.
    Some of them dont exist under names from ubuntu or even at all.
    Although I was able to run liquidsoap and icecast2 without any problems. And I know that airtime is heavily based on savonet engine.

    Now I wonder do I need all of those depencies ?
    Mostly I couldn't find all those ocaml stuff but my liquidsoap is running fine so I must have at least few of them.

    I couldn't find also daemontools-run,python-configobj, poc-streamer,python-mutagen and libportaudio2
    neither in ports or packages. These must be probably under different names i think.

    Maybe someone created port or binary package and already solved those problems ?

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  • Vote Up0Vote Down Daniel JamesDaniel James
    Posts: 844Member, Sourcefabric Team
    Hi Levi,

    > Anyone tried to run airtime on freebsd ?

    Not as far as we know. The only officially supported server platform for
    Airtime is GNU/Linux, and at the moment development is mostly taking
    place on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. You'll make a lot less work for yourself if
    you install that distro on your server.

    > I couldn't complete all my depencies.
    > Some of them dont exist on under names from ubuntu or even at all.

    I'm not surprised about that, FreeBSD is a different platform. It may be
    a cousin of GNU/Linux, but it's far from 100% compatible.

    > Maybe someone created port or binary package and already solved those
    > problems ?

    I don't think Sourcefabric would encourage that, it would just lead to
    additional support variables which would significantly increase the cost
    of development and QA. Please consider that Sourcefabric is a non-profit
    organisation, so it has to allocate resources very carefully.

    Cheers!

    Daniel
  • Vote Up0Vote Down PandoraBox2007PandoraBox2007
    Posts: 1Member
    Need install FreeBSD on Jail (Debian 6) 

    Post edited by PandoraBox2007 at 2012-03-25 09:42:30
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Alex SymsAlex Syms
    Posts: 2Member
    Hi levi,
    fortunatly, there is another way to run airtime on freebsd
    as far as I could guess, the only thing prevents you from having it up&running - "pyinotify" (linux only)
    if you succeed in "porting" py-scripts from "inotify" to "kqueue" (freebsd native) - e.g. by watchdog package ..., you'll have it done, if I'm not mistaken of course.
    Other dependencies seem to be resolvable even on freebsd (in my case
     - freebsd 7.2 release, airtime 1.9.5) + fix paths/environment variables/etc
     in scripts, replace liquidsoap's binary by one compiled from source etc.
    Good luck.

    Post edited by Alex Syms at 2012-10-24 09:01:20
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Alex SymsAlex Syms
    Posts: 2Member
    Update:
    Well, I've had it up and running on FreeBSD (7.2-RELEASE, airtime-1.9.5) at last.
    Via ports -> devel/libinotify
    pyinotify -> compile from source
    (replace the next string in setup.py and pyinotify.py:
    from
      libc_name
    = ctypes.util.find_library('c')
    to
      libc_name =
    ctypes.util.find_library('inotify')
    to use the freebsd's libinotify
    instead of linux'es libc)
    in order not to rewrite py-scripts from pyinotify to kqueue everytime after airtime upgrade
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