[users] hal 0.5.9 dependancy for gparted (still broke!?)

[Dries Verachtert]

On Tuesday September 18 2007, Dayne Broderson wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> This has been mentioned earlier in other places:
>
> http://lists.rpmforge.net/pipermail/users/2007-July/000870.html
> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-fr/2007-August/000013.html
>
> You can see clearly the dependency on hal 0.5.9 in the spec file.
> http://svn.rpmforge.net/svn/trunk/rpms/gparted/gparted.spec
>
>
> [root at BEEF yum.repos.d]# yum install gparted
> Loading "protectbase" plugin
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Setting up Install Process
> Setting up repositories
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> 144 packages excluded due to repository protections
> Parsing package install arguments
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Package gparted.x86_64 0:0.3.3-10.el5.kb set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: hal >= 0.5.9 for package: gparted
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Missing Dependency: hal >= 0.5.9 is needed by package gparted
> You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root
>
>
> I've got got the rpmforge repo and enabled and the kbs-CentOS-Extras.
> I've tried enabling kbs-CentOS-Testing too just to be sure.
>
> Googling around the internet I can see gparted 0.5.9 is available for
> Fedora 7 but I can't seem to find anything related to RHEL or Centos.
>
> I can't seem to find hal in dag's list of RPMs for RPMForge or in Karan's
> list.
>
> What is the deal?  Have I configured something wrong, and others can
> install gparted, or is this an unresolved issue.
>
> In my googling I've found a few (5 or 6) threads where this same question
> is asked but it has gone unanswered.  Perhaps this email can be the
> catalyst for the solution.

Hello Dayne,

From a mail on the packagers list:
gparted.spec requires hal >= 0.5.9 becauses it uses hal-lock which is only 
available from version 0.5.9. It uses hal-lock for the following: 
http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/hal-spec/hal-spec.html#locking-guidelines

I've changed the spec file so it doesn't use hal-lock anymore on distributions 
without the latest version of hal (like rhel/centos 5). So this should 
be 'fixed' when new packages are built.
kind regards,
Dries