[Nut-upsuser] Usbhip-ups going wild

[Manuel Wolfshant]

Antoine Gatineau wrote:
> Ok,
>  
> Now I am rebuilding an el4 rpm based on el5 src.rpm.
>  
> I will remove the --with-hal option in the configure part. In order a 
> full featured rpm, I'm trying to keep every option unless hal.
> But I am having problems with dependencies. libX11-devel,
xorg-x11-devel

> libXpm-devel,
still xorg-x11-devel, if I am not mistaken

> dbus-glib-devel
dbus-devel

> and powerman-devel
not available, afaik
IIRC, I had to compile it for RHEL-5, and in turn it required some other 
packages (a newer curl, for instance)
I suggest to drop its usage


> do not exist in RHEL 4... These are for RHEL5.
>  
> Does anyone know the equivalent dependencies for RHEL4?
> Another possibility is to disable the option that requires thoses 
> dependencies. I didn't find a document explaining that so could you help.
> By disabling the troublemaker options, I can build a package for my 
> particuliar configuration. Of course it will not help others...
>  
> I put the RHEL5 spec file in attachement also.
>  
> Merci,
> Antoine
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *De :* Arnaud Quette [mailto:aquette.dev at gmail.com]
> *Envoyé :* lundi 3 août 2009 11:09
> *À :* Antoine Gatineau
> *Cc :* Charles Lepple; nut-upsuser
> *Objet :* Re: [Nut-upsuser] Usbhip-ups going wild
>
> salut Antoine
>
> 2009/8/3 Antoine Gatineau <antoine.gatineau at alcatel-lucent.com 
> <mailto:antoine.gatineau at alcatel-lucent.com>>
>
>     Thanks for the info.
>      
>     I use the first approach.
>     So, if I understood well, the nut-hal support (ie, the --with-hal)
>     is used only for the 2nd approach. Udev rules are dealt when using
>     --with-usb.
>     Is that correct?
>
>
> mostly! the udev rules are used in both cases...
>  
>
>     If so, I might be able to rebuild the nut-2.4.1 pachage for RHEL4.
>     For packaging help (I think I might need some for the next stage
>     ;-) ) do I continue this thread or use the nut-packaging list (or
>     both).
>
>
> no, continue using the present thread.
> nut-packaging is not really active, and I've created it originally as 
> a placeholder for packagers discussions (related to the NUT Packaging 
> Standard - NPS - topic)
>
> cheers,
> Arnaud
> -- 
> Linux / Unix Expert R&D - Eaton - http://www.eaton.com/mgeops
> Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org/
> Debian Developer - http://www.debian.org
> Free Software Developer - http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/
>  
>
>
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     *De :* Arnaud Quette [mailto:aquette.dev at gmail.com
>     <mailto:aquette.dev at gmail.com>]
>     *Envoyé :* vendredi 31 juillet 2009 21:41
>     *À :* Antoine Gatineau
>     *Cc :* Charles Lepple; nut-upsuser
>
>     *Objet :* Re: [Nut-upsuser] Usbhip-ups going wild
>
>     salut Antoine,
>
>     2009/7/31 Antoine Gatineau <antoine.gatineau at alcatel-lucent.com
>     <mailto:antoine.gatineau at alcatel-lucent.com>>
>
>         I might ask a stupid question but isn't hal used to manage the
>         UPS device
>         and connection through udev rules?
>         I though that hal was mostly usefull with usb...
>
>         In the nut-hal document, it is said that HAL "allows NUT
>         drivers to feed the
>         HAL system, which will itself feeds
>         applications such as the Gnome Power Manager"
>         Does that mean hal is not used for managing the battery itself
>         but sees the
>         nut driver as a "pseudo real  battery"? In this case, indeed,
>         I do not need
>         it.
>         I use upsmon for power management.
>
>
>     not at all. there are 2 approaches:
>     - the standard one, where you have a driver (usbhid-ups), upsd and
>     upsmon.
>     udev only applies the device privileges rules.
>     - the Integrated Power Management approach, where NUT USB driver
>     can feed data to HAL (instead of upsd), replacing the basic
>     USB/HID support in HAL.
>     Note that HAL is being superseded by DeviceKit and DeviceKit-power.
>     This approach will probably be abandonned...
>
>
>         -----Message d'origine-----
>         De : Charles Lepple [mailto:clepple at gmail.com
>         <mailto:clepple at gmail.com>]
>         Envoyé : vendredi 31 juillet 2009 15:08
>         À : Antoine Gatineau
>         Cc : 'nut-upsuser'
>         Objet : Re: [Nut-upsuser] Usbhip-ups going wild
>
>         On Jul 31, 2009, at 9:03 AM, Antoine Gatineau wrote:
>
>         > Indeed, nut depends on some packages not the distribution
>         itself.
>         > You are surely right.
>         >
>         > Anyway, here are the links :
>         > RHEL 4 : ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/EPEL/4ES/SRPMS/
>         > nut-2.2.0-4.el4.src.rpm
>         > RHEL 5 : nut-2.4.1 found only on this one
>         > http://wolfy.fedorapeople.org/nut/SRPM/
>
>
>     use that one.
>     install it and edit the spec.
>     modifying --with-all by --with-usb should be sufficient.
>
>     cheers,
>     Arnaud
>     -- 
>     Linux / Unix Expert R&D - Eaton - http://www.eaton.com/mgeops
>     Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader -
>     http://www.networkupstools.org/
>     Debian Developer - http://www.debian.org
>     Free Software Developer - http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/
>