[Nut-upsdev] [PATCH] udev rules for APC 5G

[Arnaud Quette]

2010/8/26 Arnaud Quette

>
> 2010/8/12 Charles Lepple
>
> On Aug 11, 2010, at 10:54 AM, Gerd v. Egidy wrote:
>>
>>  I tried the patch recently added to support 5G ups by APC. Connecting to
>>> the
>>> ups failed because of wrong permissions of the usb device node.
>>>
>>> I had to add the new usb id to the udev rules to make it work. I attached
>>> my
>>> patch to this mail. Please consider applying.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the heads-up.
>>
>> There is already a patch applied to the file that generates the udev
>> rules, but at the moment, it only gets triggered when you do a 'make dist':
>>
>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.monitoring.nut.user/5623
>>
>> Arnaud,
>>
>> any thoughts on the question in that post?
>>
>
> well, the point is that there is not much interest in generating this file
> at compile time!
> apart for the specific case of users running the svn version.
> But in this case, we need the template to be generated before the configure
> call.
>
> IMO, the best solution here is for such users to use the snapshots instead
> of the SVN.
>

I've just completed a bit the download page in that sense (r2496)

please tell me if you feel it's fine, or need some more change.


cheers,

Arnaud
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