Packaging issues would be brought up with the distro... I have recently worked with Homebrew on a Mac VM for the CI farm, but otherwise have no clue about the ecosystem. Last saw/touched a physical Mac in school, 1994 or so :D
Upsmon as such has no need for XML (libneon et al); that would be nut-scanner and the Eaton NetXML protocol driver. On Wed, Aug 21, 2024, 18:59 Heath Smith via Nut-upsuser < [email protected]> wrote: > I am new to the email list and a recent fan of the NUT software. I have > been deploying Windows, Ubuntu, and MacOS clients. I am dealing with very > old machines, attempting to keep them running at an office where they > cannot upgrade the machines due to software dependencies. > > I was recently trying to get a client using Mac Ports and it would not > build on my target machines, MacOS 10.5 and 10.6 due to a linker error, > unknown compiler option. > > Investigating I ran into this Mac Ports ticket: > > https://trac.macports.org/ticket/41789 > > While I was able to get a build using fink and obtain statically linked > binaries for distribution, I had a larger question for those maintaining > the code base. > > 1) Who is deciding what goes in to fink and port packages? Do the > maintainers of NUT have any say with fink, Mac Ports, and Home Brew (for > MacOs machines)? > > 2) Does anyone re-evaluate dependencies like in that ticket, where a > dependency on 'libproxy' was added as a 'neon' that pulled in a bunch of > larger dependencies like big packages like gtk? It would seem advisable, in > the case of Mac Ports, to lock in the sub-package neon @0.29.6_2 and not > pull in a litany of other dependencies for a small utility like upsmon? > > Finally, thank you to all who continue to maintain the project. It is a > great set of utilities. > > >From: Jim Klimov <[email protected]> > >To: Greg Troxel <[email protected]> >To that tune, here with NUT being an > important cog to keep >machines > >running, even those who might struggle due to respectable age, there is > >some deliberate effort to support 25 years' worth of dependencies so that > >current NUT can be built as far back as CentOS 7 or Solaris 8. > _______________________________________________ > Nut-upsuser mailing list > [email protected] > https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser >
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