Build notes on hal 0.5.8

[David Zeuthen]

On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 22:33 +0200, Mark Rosenstand wrote:
> Hi David and list,
> 
> I've given hal 0.5.8 a spin and noticed two minor glitches with the
> installation:
> 
>   - Upstream pciutils seem to have replaced pciids with pciids.gz as of
>     version 2.2.4, which causes the configure script to bail out. It
>     seems that I'm not alone thinking this is a bit silly, so perhaps
>     they can be convinced to revert that behaviour. In any case,
>     support/workaround in hal would be nice.

It's a bit silly to do that yes, we'll assume distributions unzip this
themselves in packages until upstream changes back to sane behavior.

>   - The $sysconfdir/PolicyKit files are installed even when disabling
>     support for PolicyKit.

I've fixed this.

> Appart from that, everything seems to work fine, and it's very nice to
> finally see my floppy drive in nautilus without having to keep it as a
> static fstab entry. Rock on! :)

Good stuff, thanks for the feedback!

For the record, there's now a hal-0_5_8-branch (yes, I know git
supports . in branches but I'm just sticking to conventions) where I've
put some other fixes too (git-cherry-pick is just soo awesome!), will do
a 0.5.8.1 release at some point later this week.

    David