> On 20 Apr 2019, at 11:30 pm, Greg Earle <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I've got a Mac mini running El Capitan 10.11.6. I've held the OS back
> because I have a FireWire audio interface on it and FireWire is deprecated in
> more recent OSes.
Depreciated perhaps, but far from not working. I have a 2011 mac mini myself,
with an external firewire drive, snd its running 10.13, the latest OS it can
have, just fine. So this is not a reason to avoid updating.
Chris
>
> I am having a problem with my Blu-ray player not recognizing NFS shares on
> the same Mac mini. I went to install Wireshark to debug the NFS traffic but
> it won't install because the current "qt5-qtbase" port is only for Sierra or
> newer:
>
> --
> Mac-mini:~ admin$ sudo port install qt5-qtbase
> ---> Computing dependencies for qt5-qtbase
> ---> Fetching distfiles for qt5-qtbase
> Error: qt5-qtbase requires macOS 10.12 or later
> Error: Failed to fetch qt5-qtbase: incompatible OS version
> Error: See
> /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_private_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_aqua_qt5/qt5-qtbase/main.log
> for details.
> Error: Follow https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets to report a bug.
> Error: Processing of port qt5-qtbase failed
> --
>
> Is there any way to build/install an older Wireshark/Qt5 port combo that will
> still work on El Capitan?
>
> My impression of MacPorts has always been that you can only build/install
> whatever port happens to be installed after you last did a "port self
> update". I can't really risk going to Sierra and have this audio interface
> stop working. :-/
>
> - Greg
