On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Charles Lepple wrote: > The FreeBSD Project has similar maintenance services, although I > would say that they are more proactive at upgrading the version of > NUT in their ports tree. However, their maintenance method is to put > patches in the ports tree without notifying the NUT project directly > - so we have to discover them ourselves. Eagle-eyed readers will note > that the FreeBSD buildbot slave does not have IPv6 enabled, whereas > the ports tree does. Fortunately, it seems that there is only one > ports tree to track (for FreeBSD, anyway) but it is still an extra > burden on developers who are mostly using other POSIX-like systems.
Unfortunately the NUT port is currently unmaintained so it probably only gets touched when it breaks :( Also, if someone does upgrade it they are likely to be a bit more lax about feeding patches back. FWIW I've attached the current patches to the NUT port. The USB one will probably have to stay until the libusb stuff gets sorted out.. I made a stub port which supplies the necessary support scripts for auto* to find it out of the box. Unfortunately it hasn't been committed yet because it's going to need some extra work so the correct version is chosen. ie the "real" version for FreeBSD <8 and the stub for >= 8. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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