Changeset bf617d7

Timestamp:

12/09/2010 05:27:29 PM (13 years ago)

Author:

Randy McMurchy <randy@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 7.10, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.6-blfs, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, gnome, kde5-13430, kde5-14269, kde5-14686, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, krejzi/svn, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, systemd-11177, systemd-13485, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

5b3eab6

Parents:

f4c0a45

Message:

Removed mentions of the obsolete hal-device-manager program from the HAL instructions

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@8737 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Files:

• general/sysutils/hal.xml (modified) (5 diffs)
• introduction/welcome/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)

general/sysutils/hal.xml

@@ -100 +100 @@
     <xref linkend="usbutils"/>
     (with a current <filename>usb.ids</filename> file)</para>
-
-    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (to Build
-    <command>hal-device-manager</command>)</bridgehead>
-    <para role="optional"><xref linkend="python"/></para>
 
     <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (to Create Documentation)</bridgehead>
@@ -204 +200 @@
     <ulink url="http://luks.endorphin.org/dm-crypt">Cryptsetup-LUKS</ulink>, and
     <ulink url="http://pm-utils.freedesktop.org/wiki/">pm-utils</ulink>.</para>
-
-    <para>The <xref linkend="hal-device-manager"/> program requires several
-    additional <application>Python</application> modules to be available at
-    runtime. These are <xref linkend="dbus-python"/>,
-    <xref linkend="pygtk"/> (including the gtk and gtk.libglade modules), and
-    <xref linkend="gnome-python"/> (including the gnome.ui module).</para>
 
   </sect2>
@@ -447 +437 @@
       </indexterm>
 
-      <!-- Not sure if this is still required any longer as the HAL daemon
-           used to hang if you didn't first restart the DBUS daemon. This is
-           not the case any longer, but it still seems that D-Bus should be
-           restarted, as the hald.conf file is read by the D-BUS daemon.
-           Leaving it in for now until it is positively confirmed it is not
-           required. -->
-
       <important>
         <para>If the system-wide <application>D-BUS</application> daemon was
@@ -477 +460 @@
 
       <seglistitem>
-        <seg>hal-device, hal-device-manager, hal-disable-polling,
+        <seg>hal-device, hal-disable-polling,
         hal-find-by-capability, hal-find-by-property, hal-get-property,
         hal-is-caller-locked-out, hal-lock, hal-set-property, hald and
@@ -504 +487 @@
       </varlistentry>
 
-      <varlistentry id="hal-device-manager">
-        <term><command>hal-device-manager</command></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>shows a graphical representation of all the devices
-          <application>HAL</application> is aware of. Here is a <ulink
-          url="http://cvs.freedesktop.org/*checkout*/hal/hal/doc/spec/hal-devices1.png">
-          screenshot</ulink> of <command>hal-device-manager</command>
-          communicating with the HAL daemon and displaying a tree of device
-          objects. The shown properties in the screenshot are for a device
-          object representing a hard disk.</para>
-          <indexterm zone="hal hal-device-manager">
-            <primary sortas="b-hal-device-manager">hal-device-manager</primary>
-          </indexterm>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
       <varlistentry id="hal-disable-polling">
         <term><command>hal-disable-polling</command></term>

introduction/welcome/changelog.xml

@@ -45 +45 @@
       <para>December 9th, 2010</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[randy] - Removed mentions of the obsolete
+          <command>hal-device-manager</command> program from the
+          HAL instructions.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[randy] - Updated to Samba-3.5.6. Added commands to copy Samba