freebsd-launchd

A FreeBSD-only port of Apple's launchd that drops Mach IPC, replaces rc.d as PID 1, and lives in standard FreeBSD paths.

Single repo, single build.sh: builds the GNUstep system-domain libraries + launchd inside a livecd staging chroot, boot-tests the resulting ISO in CI, publishes a continuous release.

• Plan: https://pkgdemon.github.io/freebsd-launchd-plan.html
• License: BSD-2-Clause (with Apple's launchd files retaining their original Apache 2.0 headers per-file — see NOTICE)

Status

Phase 0 — pipeline scaffold lifted from freebsd-livecd-unionfs. At this stage the build produces a vanilla FreeBSD live ISO; no GNUstep libraries, no launchd, no plists. Subsequent phases add those.

See the published plan for the milestone breakdown.

Build

CI builds inside a FreeBSD VM via vmactions/freebsd-vm@v1 and publishes a continuous release on every push to main after the build

• boot smoke-test pass.

To build locally on FreeBSD:

sh build.sh

Produces out/livecd.iso.

Releases

Every push to main that passes build + boot test is published as the continuous release named FreeBSD-15.0-amd64-launchd-YYYYMMDD.iso.