[Nut-upsuser] Can't claim USB device

Arnaud Quette aquette.dev at gmail.com
Wed Apr 8 10:23:48 UTC 2009


2009/4/7 Brandon Metcalf <brandon at geronimoalloys.com>

> ----- Arnaud Quette <aquette.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2009/4/7 Brandon Metcalf <brandon at geronimoalloys.com>
> >
> > >
> > > ----- Arnaud Quette <aquette.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > 2009/4/6 Brandon Metcalf <brandon at geronimoalloys.com>
> > > > > What do you mean by backport the packages in jaunty?  What is
> involved
> > > in
> > > > > doing this?
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > - getting the source package (.dsc, .orig.tar.gz and .diff.gz) from
> here
> > > >  http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/nut
> > > > - install the build toolchain (gcc, make, ...) andautotools-dev
> fakeroot
> > > > dh-make build-essential devscripts
> > > > - unpack the source package: dpkg-source -x *.dsc
> > > > - from the build dir: debuild -us -uc
> > > > - you'll be warned of the missing prerequisites
> > > > - once built successfully, your debs will be in the parent dir.
> > >
> > > I'm running "debuild -us -uc" and, as you said, getting a lot of unmet
> > > build dependencies.  My questions are, should I upgrade my hardy system
> with
> > > these dependencies or override them with -d?  I ultimately want to
> install
> > > nut 2.4.1 on a different server system running hardy.  Will these
> > > dependencies need to be upgraded on this server system as well?  If so,
> I'm
> > > not sure I want to configure this system beyond the standard hardy
> install.
> > >
> >
> > it depends on the deps!
> > first, you can trim down debian/control Build-deps, remove the
> powerman-pdu
> > packages and possibly some more (nut-snmp?) according to your needs.
> > then go to debian/rules and remove the uneeded options from the configure
> > call.
> > after that, the remaining deps should be straightworfard... you may want
> to
> > force --without-wrap or bring down the dep on libwrap too.
> > maybe one more iirc: the debhelper dep. can be brought down to hardy's
> > version if you remove the dh_lintian call in debian/rules.
> >
> > Thanks for your help.  As you suggested, I would prefer to install a deb
> > > package for nut 2.4.1 since it does offer better integration.
>
> I should have provided this information the first time.  Here are the unmet
> dependencies:
>
>  $ debuild -us -uc
>  dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: debhelper (>= 6.0.7~)
> autoconf automake libtool libgd2-xpm-dev |   libgd2-noxpm-dev libsnmp-dev |
> libsnmp9-dev libusb-dev (>= 0.1.8) libhal-dev (>= 0.5.8) libdbus-1-dev
> libdbus-glib-1-dev libglib2.0-dev libneon27-gnutls-dev |
> libneon26-gnutls-dev | libneon-dev | libneon27-dev | libneon26-dev
> libwrap0-dev (>= 7.6) dpatch
>  debuild: fatal error at line 993:
>  You do not appear to have all build dependencies properly met, aborting.
>  (Use -d flag to override.)
>
> Based on this, can you give me some help on what to do?  I'm still a little
> unclear.
>
>
still the same as my above explanation (modify control and rules)
I've missed the nut-xml package that can be removed with the neon deps.
now it's up to you to remove the deps you don't need with all the
explanation given...

cheers,
Arnaud
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