Pond is a volatile round-robin database for log messages. It receives log datagrams and keeps them around for a while, to allow its clients to query them.

For more information, read the manual in the doc directory.

You need:

• a C++23 compliant compiler (e.g. GCC or clang)
• libfmt
• zlib
• Meson 1.2 and Ninja

Optional dependencies:

• Avahi
• systemd
• libgeoip

Get the source code:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/CM4all/pond.git

Run meson:

meson setup output

Compile and install:

ninja -C output
ninja -C output install

After installing the build dependencies, run:

dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b -uc -us