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Date:      Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:51:40 -0600
From:      Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com>
To:        Mark Kane <mark@mkproductions.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how to remove HAL dependencies in gnome2
Message-ID:  <6.0.0.22.2.20091201224959.0264c200@mail.computinginnovations.com>
In-Reply-To: <20091201140139.79a52b91@mkproductions.org>
References:  <6.0.0.22.2.20091201123751.02474600@mail.computinginnovations.com> <20091201140139.79a52b91@mkproductions.org>

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At 02:01 PM 12/1/2009, Mark Kane wrote:
>On Tue, Dec 01, 2009, at 12:41:07 -0600, Derek Ragona wrote:
> > I source upgraded a server from 7.2 release to 8.0 release.  In
> > trying to rebuild all the ports, HAL is broken and won't compile.  If
> > I try to make config on most of those ports there is no HAL in the
> > config.  How do I get rid of these dependencies so I can get the last
> > of the ports rebuilt?  These ports all seem to be part of gnome2.
>
>Hi.
>
>I'm not sure why it wasn't more clearly announced as being required
>for the 8.0 upgrade specifically, however following the 20090309 entry
>in /usr/ports/UPDATING (mainly removing the libusb port) should allow
>HAL to build again.
>
>Hope that helps,
>
>-Mark


Thanks Mark for pointing this out.  I had read UPDATING and missed this 
reference.  I even searched through UPDATING for hal and hald 
references.  I'm glad it was something simple, as I have all the ports 
updated now.

         -Derek

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