[Nut-upsuser] got nut 2.8.1 but despite reinstall, shows 2.7.4

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

>> > > gene heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> writes:
>> > > > Which file in the nut I pulled a month ago, should I start with to get
>> > > > the new version actually running? I still get - -V=2.7.4
>>
>> > On 5/22/23 07:13, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> > > It is likely that you have built new nut but old nut is still on your
>> > > system.   I do a 'sudo make install' to write over the distribution nut
>> > > (on NetBSD/pkgsrc, surely not what you are using).
>>
>> On 22.05.23 09:39, gene heskett wrote:
>> > I just found the 2.7.4 was a deb its listed in a synaptic search
>> > Should i purge it?

>On Mon, 2023-05-22 at 15:54:51 +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
>> that would make sense, although I recommend installing debian package -
>> debian cares about upgrades in such cases.
>>
>> unless you really really need, use debian packages.

On 22.05.23 16:34, Steffen Grunewald wrote:
>I can second that, but have a big BUT... Debian unstable ("sid") and the
>upcoming release ('bookworm", current "testing") both have NUT 2.8.0
>(the 7th build of it), see https://packages.qa.debian.org/n/nut.html
>for details and download links.

I guess this is because debian is currently frozen - the next release should 
come soon.

>I didn't find any suitable ready-made backport, so I did a "naive" backport
>myself - to Buster and Bullseye for amd64 and arm64.
>I.e. only added a "2.8.0-7~" entry to debian/changelog and packaged that,
>without any further changes. See dpkg-buildpackage(1)
>(Why a backport? Because the "real" 2.8.0-7 is supposed to overwrite the
>derived package set when upgrading to Bookworm. You're not supposed to
>use "sid" or "testing" packages on an older system though.)

If you are able to create backport manually, go for it.

I do that very often, and it has the possibility to switch to debian 
packages when they are available.


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