Re: [Nut-upsdev] NUT v2.8.0(-rc1)

2022-04-01 Thread Jim Klimov via Nut-upsdev
Thank you for the test and report! Regarding the changes, I hoped the NEWS and UPGRADING files detail them extensively enough :) Protocol-wise, there were some aliases added, and one notable change was addition of TRACKING for queries and replies to not mix up, more so with massive setups of

Re: [Nut-upsdev] packaging update to rc1: trip report

2022-04-01 Thread Jim Klimov via Nut-upsdev
Thanks for the update. I'm currently away from a PC so can't dig into libusb nuances. Cursorily I remember discussions that FreeBSD at least had a different implementation or build of libusb, in particular for error handling (-1 or more nuanced IIRC). Not sure which side NetBSD picked. As for

Re: [Nut-upsdev] NUT v2.8.0(-rc1)

2022-04-01 Thread René Garcia via Nut-upsdev
Hi, I built successfully package with 2.8.0-rc1 for VMware ESXi (6.7 and 7.0 tested). Now, this package provides only the client part of NUT (upsc and upsmon) and I think that this part of code has few evolutions since 2.7.4 Client has to be able to communicate with NUT servers running older

[Nut-upsdev] packaging update to rc1: trip report

2022-04-01 Thread Greg Troxel
I am taking the tarball I built from rc1 and using it as if released in pkgsrc. The great news is that it only took me about 15 minutes to update the package. I am getting one error: => Checking for non-existent script interpreters in ups-nut-2.7.4.1 ERROR: [check-interpreter.mk] The

Re: [Nut-upsdev] a few build nits

2022-04-01 Thread Charles Lepple via Nut-upsdev
On Mar 31, 2022, at 9:18 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: > > I see your point about distcheck. I tend to build tarballs from source > to then use in pkgsrc (not that I publish those tarballs and packages), > to be able to debug the combination of upstream and pkgsrc to be ready > for a release. I can

Re: [Nut-upsdev] [Nut-upsuser] NUT v2.8.0(-rc1)

2022-04-01 Thread Jim Klimov via Nut-upsdev
> Are there any known backward incompatible changes? e.g. conf file settings or commands that won't work anymore? None that I am aware of. There are a few new config keywords (and aliases to older concepts), so programs from the older NUT packages would probably safely refuse to start while

Re: [Nut-upsdev] [EXTERNAL] [Nut-upsuser] NUT v2.8.0(-rc1)

2022-04-01 Thread Zomaya, David via Nut-upsdev
> They were survived by the next name in line, NUT v2.8.0(-rc1). Le NUT est > mort, long live the NUT! Thank you to everyone who made this happen! Are there any known backward incompatible changes? e.g. conf file settings or commands that won't work anymore? Thank you, David Zomaya Eaton