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Hello fellow Gentoo users, |
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I have created some initial patches (made against 3.9.9 and 3.10.0) to |
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support Gentoo Linux. These ebuilds adds the following features: |
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- enables all stable configure options |
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- pthread support for better resource usage and performance |
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- multimon.cgi scripts for remote monitoring. |
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- USB UPS support |
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- includes {pre|post}{inst|rm} functions to |
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- install/remove runlevel init script links |
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- stop/restart daemon before/after merge |
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- configuration file cleanup after all versions are removed |
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- patches autoconf/configure.in and adds platforms/gentoo directory |
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- adds $DESTDIR prefix to all make install targets to allow 'sandbox' |
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building. Other distros may eventually use this feature to simplify |
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their package rolling process. |
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- patches platforms/etc/Makefile.in to install the various |
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mail scripts into sysconfdir |
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- uses of ssmtp for mail transport, which is bad but... |
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- separately applied during install, easily removed from ebuild |
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- it works, but someone else can submit a patch to use virtual/mta |
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For the history logs, I developed these patches after local power failed |
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(repeatedly) on Tuesday - crashing my new Gentoo box. The only |
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reasonably priced UPSs around town were USB based and, while at the |
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store, the store tech found the apcupsd homepage, confirming that such |
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beasts are now supported. Getting home with my new toy, I discovered |
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Gentoo only provided apcupsd 3.8.5, which lacks USB support. |
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These patches could have been much simpler for my situation; however, I |
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took the time to improve things a bit, thus the DESTDIR patches. These |
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have been tested fairly extensively (the patches were ready before the |
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power company had their issues resolved), and things seems to work very |
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well. The multimon.cgi support works great, though I can tell my puny |
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UPS doesn't do it justice. |
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The following link points to an archive that contains all files used by |
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Gentoo to patch and manage apcupsd 3.9.9 and 3.10.0: |
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http://mirrors.superlucidity.net/gentoo/patches/apcupsd-gentoo.tar.gz |
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or you can access the files individually at: |
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http://mirrors.superlucidity.net/gentoo/local-portage/sys-apps/apcupsd/ |
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Patches for both versions are being supplied because 3.10.0 has |
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reporting issues with my USB Back UPS 500 CS (as discussed previously on |
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this list), so I am instead currently using 3.9.9 without any problems. |
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I have taken the liberty of pushing these patches on to the apcupsd |
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developers for their review and possible inclusion in future releases. |
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These files have also been attached to bug 7778 on bugs.gentoo.org, for |
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anyone that might be interested now or in the future. Please |
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communication through that medium for bug reports, etc. |
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Finally, thanks to everyone that has made Gentoo a great distribution! |
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Cheers, |
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Zach Welch |
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Superlucidity Services |
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Corvallis, OR |
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541-754-3069 |
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zw@×××××××××××××.net |
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