2008/4/22, Arjen de Korte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > well, that's the biggest problematic of packaging. > > none of the solutions are perfect, and both have big pros and cons. > > there are still many rooms for improvement there... > > > Indeed. In the mean time, I have divided the main 'nut' package in the > following sub packages: > > - nut (client applications) > - nut-server (drivers and upsd server, requires 'nut') > - nut-snmp (net-snmp based SNMP driver, requires 'nut-server') > - nut-xml (neon based XML driver, requires 'nut-server') > - nut-cgi (web interface, requires 'nut') > - nut-hal (HAL drivers, conflicts with 'nut') > - nut-devel (libupsclient library, requires 'nut' (?)) > > I think this should more or less suit most needs. I'll prepare an updated > .src.rpm later today or tomorrow.
great! Any news from Stan btw? A side note on nut and nut-server: I've thought about that in the past, and come to the conclusion that nut should be a meta package (either depending upon nut-client + nut-server, or asking (like with debconf) for the flavor to be installed ; ie classic standalone|client, hal, ...). Then you have nut-client, nut-server, ... I also come to the conclusion that we won't be able to have a uniform implementation (ie the same packages split) on all supported systems. But we should: - provide advices and shared resources (packages descriptions, translations, LSB init scripts, ...). That will still be addressed by the NUT Packaging Standard - provide the needed helpers to deal with these differences and the needs of config / client UI. So an upsconfig library should provide functions to query the various paths, user/group, ... I'm also updating the debs on my side, both merging the last official one for -pre3 and updating these (adds the nut-xml package) Arnaud -- Linux / Unix Expert R&D - MGE Office Protection Systems - http://www.mgeops.com Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org/ Debian Developer - http://people.debian.org/~aquette/ Free Software Developer - http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/ _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser