Updated hal

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jan 4 09:17:58 PST 2008


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Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:36:37 -0600, Joe Marcus Clarke
> <marcus at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
>> I've been working on updating our hal port to 0.5.10, and I'm close to
>> being done.  While I have PolicyKit 0.7 ported, I have not been able to
>> test it yet, and I wanted to get started on hal.  So what I'm about to
>> present has no PK support.
>>
>> Here is a rough hal-0.5.10 port.  It is known to start, and work enough
>> for lshal.  It should provide at least as much functionality (except for
>> PK) as the 0.5.8 version with added Blu-Ray and HD-DVD support, and a
>> patch from Andriy Gapon to quiet audio CD probing.  You will have to
>> merge diffs from share/hal/dist/hal.conf to etc/dbus/system.d/hal.conf.
>>
>> This port also requires an updated libvolume_id.  A diff for that is
>> also available.  Right now, I'm most interested in problems that differ
>> from the 0.5.8 port.
>>
>> http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/libvolume_id.diff
>> http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/hal.diff
> 
> This weekend, I am planning to upgrade my GNOME to 2.21.x. Unless you
> want me to test your patches with GNOME 2.20.x first before I upgrade
> GNOME to 2.21.x? I am willing to test.

When all bits of the port are done, hal-0.5.10 will be committed to MC
pending the GNOME 2.22 release.  Test with 2.20 if you want, but 2.20
will never officially see hal-0.5.10.

Joe

> 
> Cheers,
> Mezz
> 
>> Joe
> 
> 


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