[Nut-upsuser] Question about nut-dependencies

[Jim Klimov]

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 <
nut-upsuser at alioth-lists.debian.net> 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 <jimklimov+nut at gmail.com>
> >To: Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com>  >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.
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