[Nut-upsuser] Usbhip-ups going wild

[Charles Lepple]

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/

I will take a look later when my Linux systems are booted.

> On rpmfind.net, nut-2.4.1 is on available for recent fedora, doesn't  
> work
> with RHEL4 or 5...
>
> FYI, in RHEL 4, I have a dependency issue when compiling nut-2.4.1 :
> ./configure --with-name=ups --with-group=nut --with-usb --with-hal
>
> (hal-devel is installed)
> Configure: error: "libhal not found, required for HAL support"
> But libhal is located in /usr/lib (.so and .a)
>
> I just tried it out. That is why I concluded nut-2.4.1 was not  
> compliant
> with RHEL 4.

Ah, right - it may depend on a certain minimum version of HAL. I  
forgot about that part.

However, you probably don't need HAL if you are using the usbhid-ups  
driver. Any problems if you remove "--with-hal" from the configure line?

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Charles Lepple [mailto:clepple at gmail.com]
> Envoyé : vendredi 31 juillet 2009 13:53
> À : Antoine Gatineau
> Cc : nut-upsuser
> Objet : Re: [Nut-upsuser] Usbhip-ups going wild
>
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 4:04 AM, Antoine
> Gatineau<antoine.gatineau at alcatel-lucent.com> wrote:
>
>> Well I have tried to upgrade the nut drivers but it can't compile on
>> RHEL4 due to dependencies.
>> Newer nut require RHEL5. Am I right?
>
> Nothing in NUT itself depends on RHEL5, but the RPM spec file might be
> written to require versions of packages only in RHEL5.
>
> Do you have URLs for the SRPMs for RHEL4 and 5? We might be able to  
> help
> backport.
>
> --
> - Charles Lepple
>