On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:21:32 +0100 Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > In gmane.os.openbsd.misc, Thomas Pfaff wrote: > > A port of this has already been posted a couple of times but, > > as someone said, it needs more work. The GUI tool fails for > > me on amd64 so that needs to be fixed. There were also some > > discussion if it should replace apc-upsd or not. It never > > got any further than that. > > > > Anyone with commit access, is there anything else that needs to > > be fixed in this port for it to be included? > > Those are the only things I know of. I'm strongly of the opinion it > should replace the existing port, and the pkgname stem should stay the > same so old users can get upgraded with pkg_add -u, even though the > upstream name changed slightly and it's been largely rewritten.
I tend to agree, but I'm a bit concerned that apcupsd won't work with the same devices that apc-upsd does. The configuration files are also very different. > I can test on an SU RM via serial and possibly also Symmetra via > SNMP but don't have time to do the rest of the work, I'm mainly using > NUT anyway. Perhaps we could drop the GUI part of the package for now? At least then we have a package that works (from the test reports received so far).
