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Bug 207004 - gnome-extra/hal-device-manager doesn't work with hal-0.5.10
Summary: gnome-extra/hal-device-manager doesn't work with hal-0.5.10
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Freedesktop bugs
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Reported: 2008-01-22 10:57 UTC by Pavel Procopiuc
Modified: 2009-04-17 04:00 UTC (History)
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Description Pavel Procopiuc 2008-01-22 10:57:17 UTC 
Since hal-0.5.10 hal-device-manager is no longer shipped, it is superseded by gnome-device-manager. So installing hal-device-manager with hal-0.5.10 results in broken symlink. I think that hal-device-manager should be blocked by >=hal-0.5.10.
Comment 1 Saleem Abdulrasool (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-01-23 22:17:36 UTC 
Fixed the deps, and masked.
Comment 2 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-01-23 22:22:47 UTC 
Why is it masked? It's perfectly valid for 0.5.9 HAL installations. gnome-device-manager isn't for 0.5.9 versions.
Comment 3 Pavel Procopiuc 2008-01-24 08:09:06 UTC 
Yes, gnome-device-manager wants >=hal-0.5.10
Comment 4 Aquila 2008-01-29 12:53:22 UTC 
I do not understand this, hal-device-manager works perfectly in hal-0.5.9, right? Currently I can't use anything like hal-device-manager while my system completely runs x86...
Comment 5 Pavel Procopiuc 2008-01-29 13:11:34 UTC 
The thing is that gnome-extra/hal-device-manager package only contains symlink to hal-device-manager binary, installed by sys-apps/hal <= 0.5.9. Since hal-0.5.10 the source code of hal-device-manager no longer bundled. So installing gnome-extra/hal-device-manager along with hal-0.5.10 yields a broken symlink.

hal-device-manager is now a separate project called gnome-device-manager. It's in the portage currently: gnome-extra/gnome-device-manager.
Comment 6 Aquila 2008-01-30 19:35:31 UTC 
Okay so why don't you block hal-device-manager for HAL >=0.5.10 and gnome-device-manager for HAL <0.5.9? I don't understand why that's not possible.
Comment 7 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-02-28 23:10:40 UTC 
it doesn't seem reasonable to mask a working code until we get the relevant hal versions out of the tree. Please unmask and fix this mess :)
Comment 8 Aquila 2008-03-21 12:18:25 UTC 
Could someone please solve this problem? It's annoying to see portage complain about this non-issue every time. If the original dev disagrees it would be interesting to know why...
Comment 9 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-02-02 22:16:52 UTC 
we don't need to be CCed here since we are in fdo already.
Comment 10 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester gentoo-dev Security 2009-04-17 04:00:03 UTC 
Mask message said:

# Saleem Abdulrasool <compnerd@gentoo.org> (22 Jan 2008)
# Never was stabled, and will not work with future versions of HAL.  Remove when
# HAL 0.5.10 is stabled on all arches.
gnome-extra/hal-device-manager

That was true, so treecleaners removed this package