FreeBSD Port: sysutils/hal

[Kris Moore]

Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 14:04 -0700, Kris Moore wrote:
>> Hi there!
>>
>> Is there any updates to the HAL ports in the works right now? I noticed
>> that the version we are using is still 0.5.8.2 and they have 0.5.9 now
>> available instead.
>>
>> http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/dist/
>>
>> Let me know whats going on, and if nobody has done this, I may fix up
>> the port here and submit it back to you guys for inclusion.
> 
> There is only one pending update in my CVS tree.  I have not started the
> work to merge 0.5.9 since it will not be trivial, and as far as I know,
> there is still no official PolicyKit release.  I had planned to start
> looking at updating HAL for GNOME 2.22.  It really isn't a big deal to
> have the version of HAL we have now.  It's not like upgrading to 0.5.9
> will bring any real FreeBSD improvements.
> 
> However, if you have interest in additional porting to the FreeBSD
> backend, let me know.  There is a need to develop a cpufreq addon that
> ties into powerd.
> 
> Joe
> 
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Thanks for getting back to me on this. I guess I was just curious if the
0.5.9 update would fix some of the various bugs our users have been
reporting, and add fuse-fs support for NTFS mounting. Right now it seems
to work fairly well, but in some weird cases crashes the system or
ignores FAT32 partitions when it shouldn't.

I will check with our team though, and if anybody wants to help port
over the cpufreq stuff, I'll let you know!


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Kris Moore
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