Bump to hal-0.5.14-r2; fixes:

- bug #299483: need consolekit rather than use it
- bug #301192: crash in hald-probe-input on startup
Package-Manager: portage-2.2_rc61/cvs/Linux x86_64

5 files changed, 396 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/sys-apps/hal/ChangeLog b/sys-apps/hal/ChangeLog
index 3904f7f5097c..ae80d7afb95f 100644
--- a/sys-apps/hal/ChangeLog
+++ b/sys-apps/hal/ChangeLog
@@ -1,6 +1,15 @@
 # ChangeLog for sys-apps/hal
 # Copyright 1999-2010 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
-# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/hal/ChangeLog,v 1.312 2010/01/07 13:28:04 dang Exp $
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/hal/ChangeLog,v 1.313 2010/01/20 13:42:15 dang Exp $
+
+*hal-0.5.14-r2 (20 Jan 2010)
+
+  20 Jan 2010; Daniel Gryniewicz <dang@gentoo.org> +files/0.5.14-hald.conf,
+  +hal-0.5.14-r2.ebuild, +files/0.5.14-hald.rc:
+  Bump to hal-0.5.14-r2; fixes:
+  - bug #299483: need consolekit rather than use it
+  - bug #301192: crash in hald-probe-input on startup
+
 
 *hal-0.5.14-r1 (07 Jan 2010)
 
diff --git a/sys-apps/hal/Manifest b/sys-apps/hal/Manifest
index ba3e1a994fde..4abd520bfc0f 100644
--- a/sys-apps/hal/Manifest
+++ b/sys-apps/hal/Manifest
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
+-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
+Hash: SHA1
+
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+AUX 0.5.14-hald.conf 119 RMD160 06e205ba7fa8acfb6f68e84a247845a3ad028351 SHA1 c8a62a808c7f632154dda1686fe344a4a136e28f SHA256 b19e6df9c78b6f813405a7cbff20e049714db1a000e6b71ab2eca02d372d58af
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 DIST hal-0.5.11-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2 8890 RMD160 ffa1ae251baa8caff74f343f9852a95b800ed9c5 SHA1 7ff6aa207216ac2fdaf1bb4e468c78a2884ef804 SHA256 f03d8f84f97dc3716aebaabc2af43762a8e1a2ffe5acb532915d31ac9794bc21
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+DIST hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-3.tar.bz2 4706 RMD160 98b761f78e8f1dda3d533c6921ca530afde85478 SHA1 2fd202df7b4dab55a6f81d90b5660f5a25d0b506 SHA256 d9997ce4890d66bca6611f3e5ee34112a0bdddf0675d4dc13f3268ba9d886a62
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 EBUILD hal-0.5.11-r9.ebuild 8893 RMD160 82350f2795c3be604aabd4d67fefbf45b98a742e SHA1 1f47d075d01d759b7bf287ba3f4b4bb8cad19b2d SHA256 af6589feba9fb9395f7d1e23bede156800fe3a870b94750c48c31c6a5572e5e8
 EBUILD hal-0.5.12_rc1-r6.ebuild 9821 RMD160 3861e904a70e10534fbde7af2c2c88f46f154c5d SHA1 c91f15233b0af3fd5661ae66a58646317d9a606e SHA256 f367e528a48ecdf93bd1334299462ec093e8674810b567ceaa9b747f9038b634
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diff --git a/sys-apps/hal/files/0.5.14-hald.conf b/sys-apps/hal/files/0.5.14-hald.conf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..941005a4b36e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sys-apps/hal/files/0.5.14-hald.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+# /etc/conf.d/hald
+
+# Should HAL be verbose to syslog? Useful for debugging
+HALD_VERBOSE="no"
+
+# vim: ft=gentoo-conf-d
diff --git a/sys-apps/hal/files/0.5.14-hald.rc b/sys-apps/hal/files/0.5.14-hald.rc
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c193dbb9e3dc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sys-apps/hal/files/0.5.14-hald.rc
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+#!/sbin/runscript
+# Copyright 1999-2010 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, v2 or later
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/hal/files/0.5.14-hald.rc,v 1.1 2010/01/20 13:42:14 dang Exp $
+
+depend() {
+	use logger acpid
+	need dbus
+	after coldplug dns nscd
+}
+
+start() {
+	[ -z "${HALD_VERBOSE}" ] && HALD_VERBOSE="no"
+	ebegin "Starting Hardware Abstraction Layer daemon"
+
+#	REAL_ROOT=`mount -fv / | cut -d' ' -f1`
+#	TEST_ROOT=`cat /proc/mounts | cut -d' ' -f1 | head -n 2 | tail -n 1`
+
+#	if [ ! -e ${TEST_ROOT} ]; then
+#		echo "You need a ${TEST_ROOT} that points to your ${REAL_ROOT}"
+#		echo "See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=175243"
+#		echo "Quick fix is: ln -s ${REAL_ROOT} ${TEST_ROOT}"
+#		eend 2
+#	fi
+
+	if [ -f /proc/acpi/event ]; then
+		chgrp haldaemon /proc/acpi/event
+		chmod 440 /proc/acpi/event
+	fi
+
+	[ ${#PATH} -gt 512 ] && export PATH=/usr/libexec:${PATH} #267928
+
+	start-stop-daemon --start -q --exec /usr/sbin/hald -- --use-syslog --verbose=${HALD_VERBOSE}
+	eend $?
+}
+
+stop() {
+	ebegin "Stopping Hardware Abstraction Layer daemon"
+	start-stop-daemon --stop -q --pidfile /var/run/hald.pid 
+	eend $?
+}
diff --git a/sys-apps/hal/hal-0.5.14-r2.ebuild b/sys-apps/hal/hal-0.5.14-r2.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2244b3e8a3e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sys-apps/hal/hal-0.5.14-r2.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,324 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2010 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/hal/hal-0.5.14-r2.ebuild,v 1.1 2010/01/20 13:42:15 dang Exp $
+
+EAPI="2"
+
+inherit eutils linux-info autotools flag-o-matic multilib
+
+PATCH_VERSION="3"
+
+MY_P=${P/_/}
+S=${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}
+PATCHNAME="${MY_P}-gentoo-patches-${PATCH_VERSION}"
+DESCRIPTION="Hardware Abstraction Layer"
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal"
+SRC_URI="http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/${MY_P}.tar.bz2
+	 http://dev.gentoo.org/~dang/files/${PATCHNAME}.tar.bz2"
+
+LICENSE="|| ( GPL-2 AFL-2.0 )"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ia64 ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sh ~sparc ~x86 -x86-fbsd"
+
+KERNEL_IUSE="kernel_linux kernel_FreeBSD"
+IUSE="X acpi apm crypt consolekit debug dell disk-partition doc laptop policykit selinux ${KERNEL_IUSE}"
+
+RDEPEND=">=dev-libs/dbus-glib-0.61
+		 >=dev-libs/glib-2.14
+		 >=dev-libs/expat-1.95.8
+		 =virtual/libusb-0*
+		 >=sys-apps/pciutils-2.2.7-r1
+		   sys-apps/usbutils
+		   virtual/eject
+		 amd64? ( >=sys-apps/dmidecode-2.7 )
+		 dell? ( >=sys-libs/libsmbios-0.13.4 )
+		 disk-partition? ( >=sys-apps/parted-1.8.0 )
+		 ia64? ( >=sys-apps/dmidecode-2.7 )
+		 kernel_linux?	(
+							>=sys-fs/udev-125
+							>=sys-apps/util-linux-2.16
+							>=sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.22
+							crypt?	( >=sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.0.5 )
+						)
+		 kernel_FreeBSD? ( >=dev-libs/libvolume_id-0.77 )
+		 x86? ( >=sys-apps/dmidecode-2.7 )
+		 selinux? ( sys-libs/libselinux sec-policy/selinux-hal )
+		 consolekit?	(
+		 					|| (
+									<sys-auth/consolekit-0.4[policykit=]
+		 							>=sys-auth/consolekit-0.4
+								)
+					)
+		 policykit?	(
+		 					sys-auth/consolekit[policykit]
+							sys-auth/policykit[pam]
+		 			)"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+		dev-util/pkgconfig
+		 >=dev-util/gperf-3.0.3
+		>=dev-util/intltool-0.35
+		doc?	(
+					app-text/xmlto
+					dev-libs/libxml2
+					dev-util/gtk-doc
+					app-text/docbook-sgml-utils
+				)"
+PDEPEND=">=app-misc/hal-info-20081219
+	!gnome-extra/hal-device-manager
+	laptop? ( >=sys-power/pm-utils-0.99.3 )"
+
+## HAL Daemon drops privledges so we need group access to read disks
+HALDAEMON_GROUPS_LINUX="haldaemon,plugdev,disk,cdrom,cdrw,floppy,usb"
+HALDAEMON_GROUPS_FREEBSD="haldaemon,plugdev,operator"
+
+function check_hotplug_net() {
+	local CONFIG_CHECK="~HOTPLUG ~NET"
+	local WARNING_HOTPLUG="CONFIG_HOTPLUG:\tis not set (required for HAL)\n"
+	local WARNING_NET="CONFIG_NET:\tis not set (required for HAL)\n"
+	check_extra_config
+}
+
+function check_inotify() {
+	local CONFIG_CHECK="~INOTIFY_USER"
+	local WARNING_INOTIFY_USER="CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER:\tis not set (required for HAL)\n"
+	check_extra_config
+}
+
+function check_acpi_proc() {
+	local CONFIG_CHECK="~ACPI_PROCFS ~ACPI_PROC_EVENT"
+	local WARNING_ACPI_PROCFS="CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS:\tis not set (required for HAL)\n"
+	local WARNING_ACPI_PROC_EVENT="CONFIG_ACPI_PROC_EVENT:\tis not set (required for HAL)\n"
+	check_extra_config
+}
+
+pkg_setup() {
+	if use kernel_linux ; then
+		if [[ -e "${ROOT}/usr/src/linux/.config" ]] ; then
+			kernel_is ge 2 6 19 || ewarn "HAL requires a kernel version 2.6.19 or newer"
+
+			if kernel_is lt 2 6 23 && use acpi ; then
+				check_acpi_proc
+			fi
+		fi
+
+		check_hotplug_net
+		check_inotify
+	fi
+
+	# http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/functions/
+	# http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191605
+
+	# Create groups for hotplugging and HAL
+	enewgroup haldaemon
+	enewgroup plugdev
+
+	# HAL drops priviledges by default now ...
+	# ... so we must make sure it can read disk/cdrom info (ie. be in ${HALDAEMON_GROUPS} groups)
+	if use kernel_linux; then
+		enewuser haldaemon -1 "-1" /dev/null ${HALDAEMON_GROUPS_LINUX}
+	elif use kernel_FreeBSD; then
+		enewuser haldaemon -1 "-1" /dev/null ${HALDAEMON_GROUPS_FREEBSD}
+	fi
+
+	# Make sure that the haldaemon user is in the ${HALDAEMON_GROUPS}
+	# If users have a problem with this, let them file a bug
+	if [[ ${ROOT} == / ]] ; then
+		if use kernel_linux; then
+			usermod -G ${HALDAEMON_GROUPS_LINUX} haldaemon
+		elif use kernel_FreeBSD; then
+			pw usermod haldaemon -G ${HALDAEMON_GROUPS_FREEBSD}
+		fi
+	fi
+}
+
+src_prepare() {
+	# Only apply one of the policy patches.  Bug #267042
+	if use policykit ; then
+		rm "${WORKDIR}/${PATCHNAME}/patches/0001-plugdev-dbus-policy.patch"
+	else
+		rm "${WORKDIR}/${PATCHNAME}/patches/0002-policykit-dbus-policy.patch"
+	fi
+
+	EPATCH_MULTI_MSG="Applying Gentoo Patchset ..." \
+	EPATCH_SUFFIX="patch" \
+	EPATCH_SOURCE="${WORKDIR}/${PATCHNAME}/patches/" \
+	EPATCH_FORCE="yes" \
+	epatch
+
+	eautoreconf
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	local acpi="$(use_enable acpi)"
+	local backend=
+	local hardware=
+	local consolekit="$(use_enable consolekit console-kit)"
+
+	append-flags -rdynamic
+
+	if use kernel_linux ; then
+		backend="linux"
+	elif use kernel_FreeBSD ; then
+		backend="freebsd"
+	else
+		eerror "Invalid backend"
+	fi
+
+	if use kernel_linux ; then
+		if use acpi ; then
+			# Using IBM ACPI and Toshiba ACPI results in double notification as this
+			# was merged into the Linux Kernel 2.6.22
+			if kernel_is lt 2 6 22 ; then
+				acpi="$acpi --enable-acpi-ibm --enable-acpi-toshiba"
+			else
+				acpi="$acpi --disable-acpi-ibm --disable-acpi-toshiba"
+			fi
+
+			acpi="$acpi --enable-acpi-proc --enable-acpi-acpid"
+		else
+			acpi="$acpi --disable-acpi-ibm --disable-acpi-toshiba"
+			acpi="$acpi --disable-acpi-proc --disable-acpi-acpid"
+		fi
+
+		hardware="--with-cpufreq --with-usb-csr --with-keymaps"
+		use arm && hardware="$hardware --with-omap --enable-pmu"
+		use ppc && hardware="$hardware --enable-pmu"
+		if use x86 || use amd64; then
+			hardware="$hardware --with-macbook --with-macbookpro"
+		fi
+
+		if use dell ; then
+			hardware="$hardware --with-dell-backlight"
+		else
+			hardware="$hardware --without-dell-backlight"
+		fi
+
+		hardware="$hardware --enable-sonypic"
+	else
+		hardware="--without-cpufreq --without-usb-csr --without-keymaps"
+		hardware="$hardware --without-omap"
+		hardware="$hardware --without-dell-backlight"
+		hardware="$hardware --enable-acpi-ibm --enable-acpi-toshiba"
+		hardware="$hardware --disable-sonypic"
+	fi
+
+	# Policykit support depends on consolekit support.  Therefore, force on
+	# consolekit, even if it's USE flag is off, if policykit support is on.
+	# This enables packages to USE-depend on hal[policykit?]
+	if use policykit ; then
+		consolekit="--enable-console-kit"
+	fi
+
+	econf --with-backend=${backend} \
+		  --with-os-type=gentoo \
+		  --with-pid-file=/var/run/hald.pid \
+		  --with-hwdata=/usr/share/misc \
+		  --with-socket-dir=/var/run/hald \
+		  --with-udev-prefix=/etc \
+		  --enable-umount-helper \
+		  --enable-man-pages \
+		  --disable-acl-management \
+		  --enable-pci \
+		  $(use_enable apm) \
+		  $(use_enable debug verbose-mode) \
+		  $(use_enable disk-partition parted) \
+		  $(use_enable doc docbook-docs) \
+		  $(use_enable doc gtk-doc) \
+		  $(use_enable policykit policy-kit) \
+		  ${consolekit} \
+		  --docdir=/usr/share/doc/${PF} \
+		  --localstatedir=/var \
+		  ${acpi} ${hardware} \
+	|| die "configure failed"
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	emake DESTDIR="${D}" install || die
+	dodoc AUTHORS ChangeLog NEWS README || die "docs failed"
+
+	# hal umount for unclean unmounts
+	exeinto /$(get_libdir)/udev/
+	newexe "${FILESDIR}/hal-unmount.dev" hal_unmount || die "udev helper failed"
+
+	# initscript
+	cp "${FILESDIR}/0.5.14-hald.rc" "${WORKDIR}/" || \
+		die "failed to copy hald.rc"
+	if use consolekit || use policykit; then
+		sed -e 's:need dbus:need dbus consolekit:' \
+			-i "${WORKDIR}/0.5.14-hald.rc" || die "failed to change verbose"
+	fi
+	newinitd "${WORKDIR}/0.5.14-hald.rc" hald || die "init script failed"
+
+	# configuration
+	cp "${FILESDIR}/0.5.14-hald.conf" "${WORKDIR}/" || \
+		die "failed to copy hald.conf"
+
+	if use debug; then
+		sed -e 's:HALD_VERBOSE="no":HALD_VERBOSE="yes":' \
+			-i "${WORKDIR}/0.5.14-hald.conf" || die "failed to change verbose"
+	fi
+	newconfd "${WORKDIR}/0.5.14-hald.conf" hald || \
+		die "failed to install hald.conf"
+
+	if use X ; then
+		# New Configuration Snippets
+		dodoc "${WORKDIR}/${PATCHNAME}/config-examples/"*.fdi || \
+			die "dodoc X examples failed"
+	fi
+
+	# We now create and keep /media here as both gnome-mount and pmount
+	# use these directories, to avoid collision.
+	keepdir /media
+
+	# We also need to create and keep /etc/fdi/{information,policy,preprobe}
+	# or else hal bombs.
+	keepdir /etc/hal/fdi/{information,policy,preprobe}
+
+	# HAL stores it's fdi cache in /var/cache/hald
+	keepdir /var/cache/hald
+
+	# HAL keeps its unix socket here
+	keepdir /var/run/hald
+	keepdir /var/lib/hal
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	# Despite what people keep changing this location. Either one works.. it doesn't matter
+	# http://dev.gentoo.org/~plasmaroo/devmanual/ebuild-writing/functions/
+
+	elog "The HAL daemon needs to be running for certain applications to"
+	elog "work. Suggested is to add the init script to your start-up"
+	elog "scripts, this should be done like this :"
+	elog "\`rc-update add hald default\`"
+	echo
+	elog "Access to hal is not protected by either policykit or the plugdev group."
+	elog "If you have problems discovering/configuring hardware, try adding"
+	elog "yourself to plugdev."
+	echo
+	elog "IF you have additional applications which consume ACPI events, you"
+	elog "should consider installing acpid to allow applications to share ACPI"
+	elog "events."
+	if use X ; then
+		echo
+		elog "If you wish to use a non US layout, you may do so by executing:"
+		elog "setxkbmap <layout> or by utilizing your Desktop Environment's"
+		elog "Keyboard Layout Settings mechanism."
+		elog "Under GNOME, this is gnome-keyboard-properties, and under KDE"
+		elog "it is kxkb."
+	fi
+	echo
+	elog "In order have suspend/hibernate function with HAL or apps that use HAL"
+	elog "(such as gnome-power-manager), you should build HAL with the laptop"
+	elog "useflag which will install pm-utils."
+	if use X ; then
+		echo
+		elog "X Input Hotplugging (if you build xorg-server with the HAL useflag)"
+		elog "reads user specific configuration from /etc/hal/fdi/policy/."
+		echo
+		elog "You should remove the Input sections from your xorg.conf once you have"
+		elog "migrated the rules to a HAL fdi file."
+	fi
+
+	ebeep 5
+	epause 5
+}