there's a port of this in the list archives
On 2011/02/13 19:47, Laurence Tratt wrote: > [I know ports is in lock, but this is an early stages port that will need > quite some work before it's ready for commit. There are probably better > qualified people than I to take this forward, so early posting seems > sensible.] > > Calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application - it > can sync and convert various formats to Kindles and their ilk. It can also > connect to various internet news sources and sync them to an ebook device. > > This port is rough and ready - it currently pretends to Calibre that it's > running on FreeBSD to utilise the rudimentary FreeBSD inbuilt support (which > means that there's no nice talk-via-USB support; you can do things manually > by mounting the device yourself in the normal filesystem) and incorporates a > couple of hacky patches from Debian. This is enough to get simple > functionality up and running - I can e-mail files to my Kindle, for example. > Both the port and Calibre itself really need a lot of cleaning up (Calibre > itself is rather tempermental, and can quite easily get its knickers in a > twist; how much of that is a lack of OpenBSD support I haven't yet looked > at), but it does what I need it to. > > The port is at: > > http://tratt.net/laurie/src/obsd/ports/calibre.tar.gz > > It also needs an updated version of py-cssutils (without it, virtually > nothing works), a patch for which is at: > > http://tratt.net/laurie/src/obsd/ports/py-cssutils.patch > > > Laurie > -- > http://tratt.net/laurie/ -- Personal > http://fetegeo.org/ -- Free text geocoding > http://convergepl.org/ -- The Converge programming language >
