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Date:      Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:44:04 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Kris Moore <kris@pcbsd.com>
Cc:        gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Port: sysutils/hal
Message-ID:  <1187991844.79535.1.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <46CF41BD.90205@pcbsd.com>
References:  <46CDF660.1020203@pcbsd.com> <1187905573.22397.15.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <46CF41BD.90205@pcbsd.com>

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On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 13:38 -0700, Kris Moore wrote:
> 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 notice=
d
> >> 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.
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> > There is only one pending update in my CVS tree.  I have not started th=
e
> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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 haven't heard of any bug reports, and those I have heard of, I
replied.  No one got back to me on testing fuse-ntfs.  Reporting bugs to
you guys does no good unless you're going to give freebsd-gnome patches
for HAL.

Joe

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