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Port details
virtual_oss_bluetooth Bluetooth backend for virtual_oss
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Maintainer: christos@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2025-09-30 15:42:09
Last Update: 2025-09-30 15:39:28
Commit Hash: 2dcc66e
License: BSD2CLAUSE
WWW:
https://freebsd.org
Description:
Bluetooth backend virtual_oss. This is an extension for the base system version of virtual_oss. It enables bluetooth audio support, with the option of also including AAC audio support. The backend gets loaded dynamically only when a virtual_oss(8) invocation uses a bluetooth device.
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pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. lib/virtual_oss/voss_bt.so
  2. @ldconfig
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/virtual_oss_bluetooth-1403000/catalog.mk
  4. /usr/local/share/licenses/virtual_oss_bluetooth-1403000/LICENSE
  5. /usr/local/share/licenses/virtual_oss_bluetooth-1403000/BSD2CLAUSE
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Dependency lines:
  • virtual_oss_bluetooth>0:audio/virtual_oss_bluetooth
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/audio/virtual_oss_bluetooth/ && make install clean
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To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install audio/virtual_oss_bluetooth
  • pkg install virtual_oss_bluetooth
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: virtual_oss_bluetooth
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Configuration Options:
===> The following configuration options are available for virtual_oss_bluetooth-1403000: LIBAV=off: Build with libav support for AAC audio ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Options name:
audio_virtual_oss_bluetooth
USES:
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Number of commits found: 1

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
CommitCreditsLog message
1403000
30 Sep 2025 15:39:28
commit hash: 2dcc66e8c6c4b92a3278ea874b41e4b81ae441edcommit hash: 2dcc66e8c6c4b92a3278ea874b41e4b81ae441edcommit hash: 2dcc66e8c6c4b92a3278ea874b41e4b81ae441edcommit hash: 2dcc66e8c6c4b92a3278ea874b41e4b81ae441ed files touched by this commit
Christos Margiolis (christos) search for other commits by this committer
audio/virtual_oss_bluetooth: New port

src commit 9cab9fde5eda ("virtual_oss: Port to base") includes the
bluetooth backend, however the backend also has a HAVE_LIBAV ifdef,
which, if set, enables libav support, which depends on
multimedia/gstreamer1-libav. While we could build the non-libav parts
from base and the libav ones as a port, we instead build the whole
backend as a port to avoid unnecessary complexity. The reason for that
being that building from base would install the backend in
/usr/lib/virtual_oss/voss_bt.so, and the port would install _another_
voss_bt.so, but this time in /usr/local/lib/virtual_oss/voss_bt.so,
which would create conflicts.

The port simply builds the files from src, which is not ideal, as this
means that the src repo needs to be present in the system in order for
the port to build, but this way we can avoid version mismatches and
ifdef hell as the project progresses.

Note that this is an extension for the base system virtual_oss, and not
audio/virtual_oss.

Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
Reviewed by:	arrowd
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D52426

Number of commits found: 1