[Nut-upsdev] ETIME on FreeBSD

[Alexey Loukianov]

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24.01.2010 17:06, Charles Lepple wrote:
>> What versions of the FreeBSD are considered to be "current" from the NUT  
>> perspective?
> 
> I have pretty much given up on versions older than 8.0, and I don't  
> have the time to track FreeBSD-CURRENT.
> 

Does it mean that earlier versions of FreeBSD are considered unsupported by NUT
development team and the will be no support offered in case there are any issues
with the NUT compilation or behavior on legacy systems?

And what is the general NUT policy for the operating systems support?
Are there any release schedule defined for the NUT?

Latest release (2.4.1) was done about a year ago (Feb 2009) and accordingly to
the SVN log there were a lot of the useful changes (that are surely demanded by
the NUT users worldwide) since then. It is widely common for the linux
developers to use half-a-year release cycle (RedHat, Canonical, KDE, Gnome) and
I think that it might be good to try to stick in with the same policy for the
NUT releases. It might give a better integration into the major distributions
like Fedora or Ubuntu and will offer the end-users with a better service
(unfortunately it is common for the linux end-user nowdays not to be familiar
with the SVN and with the software installation from the source code).

The question concerning the offer of the some support level to the older linux
and FreeBDS distributions seems to be one of the most important to me as the NUT
is at its nature (primarily) a sysadmins tool that is most likely to be used in
the server room or in the datacenter and it is not uncommon for the such
installations to still use legacy hardware and software. As I had already
mentioned in one of the mailings there are still a lot of installation of the
even such an old beast as the RHEL3 out there in the corporate world. RHEL4 will
be supported by RedHat for about two additional years starting from now. If I
had the correct understanding of the FreeBSD Project release schedule at the
current moment there are two branches that are supported: 7.x and 8.x. Security
updates will be also offered for the 6.x branch until the 30th of November,
2010. This means that it would be good for the NUT to compile and work correctly
not only on the 8.x branch but also at least on the 7.x branch of FreeBSD.

Does it make sense or am I missing something?

P.S. In any case I will try to install and to do some experiments with the
device in question (Ippon Back Power Pro) on the both current FreeBSD releases
(8.0 and 7.2). Major rewrite of the usb support that was done in the 8.0 release
gives me an insight that there will me major differences in how does the hanged
device behave on the 7.2-RELEASE vs. the 8.0-RELEASE.

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Best regards,
Alexey Loukianov                          mailto:mooroon2 at mail.ru
System Engineer,                            Mob.:+7(926)218-1320
*nix Specialist

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