Bugzilla Bug 67170

app-admin/gamin is a drop-in replacement for app-admin/fam (File Alteration
Monitor), used by -amongst other things- gnome.

app-admin/fam & app-admin/gamin both have a PROVIDE="virtual/fam" already.

All arches please add virtual/fam to your profile(s) as needed. Suggested is to
default to app-admin/fam at this point, but soon-ish gamin should be better,
especially when inotify support enters the kernel.

why dont you just add virtual/fam to profiles/base/virtuals ?

that would take care of pretty much all arches come 2004.3 ... arm/hppa/ia64/s390/x86 have already switched over to stackable via profiles.desc

gamin now has hppa/ia64 KEYWORDS

i wont add a virtual to these profiles per comment #1

s390 KEYWORD added

I didn't notice a rc init file, but for some reason the famd one was sitting
around so i changed it's name and changed /usr/sbin/famd to /usr/libexec/gamin
and this seems to work.  How was it supposed to work? Does gnome autolaunch it
and I am unaware?

Haplo: I noticed that the process /usr/libexec/gamin was started / stopped
"automagically" with KDE (I didn't test with gnome, but I think it's related
with fam compliant or gamin native library so it shoult be the same with
Gnome).
I removed fam from my system and deleted /etc/init.d/famd. It's useless.

*** Bug 68800 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

added virtual/fam to profiles/base/virtuals

@ comment 4 & 5 : don't go offtopic, this is not the forums.

I'm leaving this open for arches to adapt older profiles, because those will break when we start changing the deps to the virtual.

*** Bug 69549 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

it has been 'adopted'

ppc64 has taken the necessary actions to add the and app-admin/fam itself is
marked stable.

Thanks!

The following packages depend on app-admin/fam and should be altered to dep on
virtual/fam instead. Package maintainers, please change & test with gamin.

dev-embedded/pikdev
dev-libs/fampp2
dev-util/omake
kde-base/kdelibs
mail-client/cone
mail-mta/courier
media-sound/musicman
net-dns/posadis
net-libs/wvstreams
net-mail/courier-imap
www-client/kita

Packages done:
net-mail/courier-imap
mail-mta/courier
mail-client/cone

fixed musicman.

done with fampp2

fixed net-libs/wvstreams-4.0

this is no longer an amd64-bug, is it?

FAM is used by courier-imap for IMAP_ENHANCEDIDLE (check folder(s) in
realtime). I tested my courier-imap setup with gamin and it doesn't seem to
work. I followed the steps in http://www.courier-mta.org/?imapd.html. Someone
else has a courier-imap setup please test.

www-client/kita works fine with gamin. Fixed in CVS.

Still waiting for the following apps to be updated

dev-embedded/pikdev
dev-util/omake
kde-base/kdelibs
net-dns/posadis

courier-imap reported to have problems with gamin (comment #17), can someone confirm this problem ?

I noticed it's done for following packages:

kde-base/kdelibs (3.3.1, 3.3.2)
net-dns/posadis (0.60.5-r1)

net-dns/posadis (0.60.5-r1)
marked as stable

I confirm courier-imap-3.* not working with gamin.
pikdev does not seem to use fam anymore.

Did anyone try whether the new stable courier-imap-4.0.1 does work with gamin?
fam has been causing me just troubles and had to get rid of it.  

Created an attachment (id=55860) [details]
Attempt to fix FAM compatibility issue

It's actually a compatibility issue in gamin that causes problems with
courier-imap. Courier-IMAP expects an acknowledge event from libfam which it
doesn't get.

I already posted this patch on the GNOME bugzilla and perhaps one of the
developers can come up with a nicer solution. I'm aware that my patch is
probably neither absolutely correct but for now it does the trick.

The enhanced IDLE extension in courier-imap now works as expected.

*** Bug 88587 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 71590 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

kdelibs and pikdev are already done, removing kde from CC. 
 

media-gfx/maya is the only package remaining directly depending on
app-admin/fam.

Maya is now updated.  There are no more packages in the tree depending directly
on app-admin/fam