nut postinst should do more work

[Stephen]

Binary package hint: nut

nut configuration takes too long, between reading docs, following steps and testing.

There should be an optional config step for the common case of 1 ups directly connected.
It would ask for the port and ups driver (if not detectable from the port), then generate
ups.conf upsd.conf upsd.users upsmon.conf

[Arnaud Quette (aquette)]

fully right Stephen,

I've developed the following plans, since I took over the project 2
years ago, to address this problem:
- make nut configless for USB UPS. NUT 2.2.0 has opened the door to
the HAL bridge.
but for those still needing a classic NUT installation (for
redundancy, network UPS server, ...), some udev scripting is still to
be done (see below)
- create a configuration library (to allow GUI and other conf helpers,
such as debconf) and a basic helper (upsconfig). This has already been
developed, along with a new conf file format, is scheduled for 2.4 and
is available here as a separate branch:
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/nut/branches/JD-NewConf/?rev=0&sc=0

I would have made it available for long, but sadly, the problem is and
remain the lack of manpower, and of time from the major developers...

Arnaud
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