feat: BSD native support

[axeld-galadrim]

Hello!
I looked at the different ways to install eza, and there are actually quite a lot!
Tho, I saw that FreeBSD and OpenBSD and some other BSD were missing!
I think that letting people add eza using pkg_add will be a good way to

1. Make eza used by more people
2. Add even more features than exa (which, to my knowledge, isnt available in the repos of FreeBSD and OpenBSD)

• OpenBSD
• FreeBSD
• NetBSD
• DragonflyBSD

[cafkafk]

I mean, we just need a BSD person to do that really.

[axeld-galadrim]

Oh ok, but does this person need to be part of the eza community or something, or could it be anyone ?
I might know someone that can do it.
Thanks for your quick answer!

[cafkafk]

I mean it could be anyone, but they'd also have maintain it. Of course, I don't know exactly what it would require to support BSD.

[axeld-galadrim]

Right! Thanks for your return
A bit off-topic: but thanks a lot for eza! I really like the devotion that you put in it with all the eza-community, so thank you!

[koutheir]

Installing eza works through cargo install eza on FreeBSD 13.2. eza itself also seems to work properly.

[cafkafk]

you likely didn't get completions and manual pages thou I imagine, so there's definitely still a use for someone packaging it (but i'm glad to hear it works on freebsd in the first place)

[koutheir]

you likely didn't get completions and manual pages thou I imagine

• No completions. I didn't fetch completions/ from the repository. I'm using the fish shell.
• No manual pages, but eza --help works.

so there's definitely still a use for someone packaging it (but i'm glad to hear it works on freebsd in the first place)

I agree.

[koutheir]

I never packaged anything on FreeBSD, but I'm interested in implementing features that are missing on FreeBSD. Does anybody know of such features?

I only know of security contexts, but these are Linux-specific because SELinux is only implemented there.

[VlkrS]

eza was just added to the OpenBSD ports tree.

exa is available in the ports trees of both OpenBSD and FreeBSD, so if you are interested in making eza available on FreeBSD, maybe get in touch with the exa maintainer:

https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/exa/

[axeld-galadrim]

Really nice for OpenBSD. Happy to hear that. Congrats!

[axeld-galadrim]

For people that don't have OpenBSD installed but want to check the status of eza on OpenBSD, you can use https://openbsd.app to search for package. For eza

[kdeguchi]

I have added eza to the FreeBSD ports tree. Thank you.

https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/eza/

[yonas]

I have added eza to the FreeBSD ports tree. Thank you.

https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/eza/

@axeld-galadrim Recommend close this issue.

[axeld-galadrim]

@yonas as far as I know, NetBSD and dragonflyBSD which are 2 populars BSD are still missing.

[yonas]

@axeld-galadrim You're right 👍

[axeld-galadrim]

Noted NetBSD as done:
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/sysutils/eza/?only_with_tag=MAIN

[VlkrS]

I'm not a Dragonfly User, but afaict, it will eventually pick up the port from FreeBSD:

https://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/howtos/HowToDPorts/

[axeld-galadrim]

Right! @cafkafk are you ok to close this issue than ?

[cafkafk]

Right! @cafkafk are you ok to close this issue than ?

Well, I guess we've gotten em all then! 🎉

[axeld-galadrim]

XD
BSDs, gotta catch 'em all!
(In reality, there are some other obscures BSDs out there, but the most popular ones are done)