Updated hal

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:19:48 -0600, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at FreeBSD.org>  
wrote:

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> Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>> On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:36:37 -0600, Joe Marcus Clarke
>> <marcus at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
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>>> 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
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>> 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.
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> 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.

I will testing with GNOME 2.20 first. A stable desktop should give a  
better result to figure which problem is in hal or GNOME.

Cheers,
Mezz

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