[Nut-upsuser] UPS configuration issue?

[gene heskett]

On 5/13/25 21:05, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> gene heskett via Nut-upsuser writes:
>
>> However debians legendary slowness to update things does test my 
>> patience at times. The fact that bookworms default nut is 2.8.0 is an 
>> example.
>
> That sounds familiar. Debian's been shipping very old versions of my 
> packages, which was …irritating. I am not being accusatory, I 
> understand that it's all volunteer work, and most of the time …there 
> was no volunteer. But it was still a problem for me.
>
> I solved this problem by boning up, learning how to create deb 
> packages, then including a script in my tarballs that create deb 
> packages from their own tarballs – very similar to how including a 
> package.spec in the tarball allows rpmbuild to build installable rpms 
> directly from the tarball: "rpmbuild -ta package-version.tar.bz2", sit 
> back, and wait for the binary rpms to be created.
>
> As far as I know debuild doesn't have anything comparable to this, but 
> what I hacked up came pretty close. The report from the field was that 
> non-developers are able to use it. And this solved the "old packages 
> in Debian" issue and made it go away, for the most part. I only made 
> sure that what I did was not going to interfere with anything a real, 
> honest to goodness, Debian or Ubuntu maintainer needs to do, so when 
> one shows up, occasionally, from time to time, it stays out of their way.
>
> Unfortunately this is not something that works generically, the script 
> is tailored specifically to the tarball's contents. But that's the 
> general solution to addressing old stuff in Debian or Ubuntu.

Well i have been in the past, able to build from the tarballs but will 
readily admit that at 90 yo, its getting less and less appetizing.  
However when 2.8.3 is out, I might give it a shot if I can actually get 
Jim's output.  Or possibly switch distro's. Debian has about worn me 
out. I have a time wasting bug that no one on this ball of rock & water 
can duplicate.

Thanks Sam V.

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Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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