I tried whipper on FreeBSD but find some hard-dependencies to Linux in the implementation which lead to error messages. I used:
dvl@mybsd:~ % uname -or
FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE-p5
(venv) dvl@mybsd:~/Music/rip % whipper --version
whipper 0.10.1.dev65+g71251a0b8
Some of the developers can use these patches which let whipper run on FreeBSD 15 :
For /whipper/common/drive.py
--- /tmp/drive.py.orig 2026-04-13 19:30:29.243000476 +0000
+++ /tmp/drive.py.new 2026-04-13 19:30:29.289000476 +0000
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
# along with whipper. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
import os
+import platform
from fcntl import ioctl
import logging
@@ -93,6 +94,13 @@
:rtype: int
"""
fd = os.open(drive_path, os.O_RDONLY | os.O_NONBLOCK)
- rc = ioctl(fd, 0x5326) # AKA 'CDROM_DRIVE_STATUS'
- os.close(fd)
+ try:
+ if platform.system() == 'Linux':
+ rc = ioctl(fd, 0x5326) # AKA 'CDROM_DRIVE_STATUS'
+ else:
+ logger.debug('CDROM_DRIVE_STATUS ioctl not supported on this '
+ 'platform, assuming disc present')
+ rc = 0 # CDS_NO_INFO: not implemented, whipper will proceed
+ finally:
+ os.close(fd)
return rc--- a/whipper/program/utils.py
+++ b/whipper/program/utils.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
import os
+import platform
import subprocess
@@ -38,6 +39,9 @@
device = os.path.realpath(device)
logger.debug('possibly unmount real path %r', device)
- proc = open('/proc/mounts').read()
- if device in proc:
- print('Device %s is mounted, unmounting' % device)
- os.system('umount %s' % device)
+ if platform.system() == 'Linux':
+ proc = open('/proc/mounts').read()
+ if device in proc:
+ print('Device %s is mounted, unmounting' % device)
+ os.system('umount %s' % device)
+ else:
+ logger.debug('skipping unmount check, if not on Linux')
I tried whipper on FreeBSD but find some hard-dependencies to Linux in the implementation which lead to error messages. I used:
Some of the developers can use these patches which let whipper run on FreeBSD 15 :
For /whipper/common/drive.py