Bug 337059

Summary:	NUT - classic and HAL versions should not be packaged together
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3	Reporter:	Arjen de Korte <suse+build>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	openSUSE 10.3
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Description Arjen de Korte 2007-10-26 12:33:52 UTC

It may appear to work now, but only the last driver that claimed the device will be able to use it. So by adding HAL to the nut package, it is no longer possible to use the classic NUT installation (since the HAL version will be started last).

The following is from 'docs/nut-hal.txt' and is still valid:
--8<--
The HAL support in NUT must currently be packaged separatly (ie in a
specific nut-hal package) and must conflict with the classic nut packages.
This is in order to:
- allow shipping of the HAL support only in the base system,
without including all the NUT drivers and software,
- prevent the NUT HAL addons to get an exclusive
and automatic access on a device, when a user only want to use the
USB support with a classic NUT installation.
-->8--

Comment 1 Stanislav Brabec 2008-05-05 12:19:03 UTC

Could you counfirm, that I understand correctly the purpose?

1) None of them should be preferred:

nut-hal will be used for local USB UPSes.

In all other cases nut-classic will be needed: Serial UPSes, SNMP remote UPSes, combination of UPSes.

The disadvantage of nut-classic is impossibility of reuse of HAL power management frontends.


2) It seems to be a temporary solution. We can get rid hal-classic, if:

- All drivers will be moved to HAL. For undetectable hardware it will require config based static HAL provider, which does not exist yet (It was rejected in past by some developers as "against the spirit of hal". Now they have more positive opinion about it, but somebody must write it.)

- The network UPS logic will be integrated with HAL. It may need a consesus with an extension of hal power management.

Comment 2 Stanislav Brabec 2008-05-23 13:46:24 UTC

Package was already splitted as expected.

Comment 3 Stanislav Brabec 2008-05-26 13:10:25 UTC

I forgot to add Requires: for the frontend into the core packages. Fixing now. It introduces circular dependency between core and frontend package, but it is intended. One without the other cannot be used.