I've got a Mac mini running El Capitan 10.11.6. I've held the OS back
because I have a FireWire audio interface on it and FireWire is
deprecated in more recent OSes.
I am having a problem with my Blu-ray player not recognizing NFS shares
on the same Mac mini. I went to install Wireshark to debug the NFS
traffic but it won't install because the current "qt5-qtbase" port is
only for Sierra or newer:
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Mac-mini:~ admin$ sudo port install qt5-qtbase
---> Computing dependencies for qt5-qtbase
---> Fetching distfiles for qt5-qtbase
Error: qt5-qtbase requires macOS 10.12 or later
Error: Failed to fetch qt5-qtbase: incompatible OS version
Error: See
/opt/local/var/macports/logs/_private_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_aqua_qt5/qt5-qtbase/main.log
for details.
Error: Follow https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets to report a
bug.
Error: Processing of port qt5-qtbase failed
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Is there any way to build/install an older Wireshark/Qt5 port combo that
will still work on El Capitan?
My impression of MacPorts has always been that you can only
build/install whatever port happens to be installed after you last did a
"port self update". I can't really risk going to Sierra and have this
audio interface stop working. :-/
- Greg
