Hal 0.5.13 (and page needs to be updated)

[willimm]

New version.

Also, the page needs to be updated for many reasons:

• PolicyKit and ConsoleKit should be promoted from optional deps to recommended deps. At least, that's how CBLFS does it...
• The sed is no longer needed if you are using parted.
• It appears that CBLFS passes --enable-parted, --enable-policykit, --enable-consolekit, --enable-acl-management, and --enable-umount-helper. Should we look in to these?
• hal-info is now at 20090716.
• There are some major changes in the configuration. They follow:
  • Since 2.6.23-rc9 (i.e. many versions ago), the slow-vfat plobrem seems to be fixed now. So usefree is not needed for vfat devices anymore. English users (like me) would breath a sigh of relif.
  • Someone created a patch (attached, rediffed aganst newer XFCE) that allows you to specify mount options for XFCE devices. See ​http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2891#c19 for more info. So that's one of the reasons that XFCE should be in the book again.

Note: attched patch fixes that and another HAL issue: HAL throws cryptic messages at you when you eject the CDrom drive. Also, the file for configuring XFCE mount options is $XFCE_PREFIX/share/xfce4/mount.rules. A sample version follows (from the ticket):

[vfat]
mount_options=shortname=mixed;uid=;utf8;umask=077;exec;flush

# mount_options=shortname=mixed;uid=;utf8;umask=077;exec;usefree
# Sometimes, adding a 'usefree' option is required due to bugs in the kernel.
# See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/133567

[udf]
mount_options=uid=;exec

[ntfs-3g]
mount_options=locale=;exec

[ntfs]
mount_options=umask=222;utf8;exec
fstype_override=ntfs-3g

[iso9660]
mount_options=uid=;utf8;exec

[hfs]
mount_options=uid=

So, what do you think?

[willimm]

Kills the two HAL bugs with one stone, allowing the user to specify the HAL options, and stopping HAL from throwing cryptic messages when you press the eject button on a CD/DVD drive.

[willimm]

Wait, wait. I should of created a ticket on DeviceKit instead. It appears (as of 09-28-09) to be stable now, having a version 003 now.

Oh, and GNOME needs it now, according to CBLFS, along with DeviceKit-disks, DeviceKit-power, and some little GNOME thing called gnome-disk-utility (which seems to replace gnome-mount). All of these are found at hal's normal download location.

[willimm]

Well, HAL should still be in the book. I'll open up a ticket for DeviceKit later.

[Randy McMurchy]

This ticket is a duplicate of #2710. Closing, but I'll note this ticket number in the existing ticket.

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Milestone 6.5 deleted