Author: randy
Date: 2010-12-09 10:27:29 -0700 (Thu, 09 Dec 2010)
New Revision: 8737
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/general/sysutils/hal.xml
trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
Log:
Removed mentions of the obsolete hal-device-manager program from the HAL
instructions
Modified: trunk/BOOK/general/sysutils/hal.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/general/sysutils/hal.xml 2010-12-09 00:22:09 UTC (rev 8736)
+++ trunk/BOOK/general/sysutils/hal.xml 2010-12-09 17:27:29 UTC (rev 8737)
@@ -100,10 +100,6 @@
<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>
<para role="optional"><xref linkend="xmlto"/></para>
@@ -204,12 +200,6 @@
<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>
<sect2 role="configuration">
@@ -446,13 +436,6 @@
<primary sortas="f-haldaemon">haldaemon</primary>
</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
running during the installation of <application>HAL</application>,
@@ -476,7 +459,7 @@
<segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
<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
lshal</seg>
@@ -503,22 +486,6 @@
</listitem>
</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>
<listitem>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml 2010-12-09 00:22:09 UTC
(rev 8736)
+++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml 2010-12-09 17:27:29 UTC
(rev 8737)
@@ -45,6 +45,11 @@
<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
schema files to the OpenLDAP schema directory.</para>
</listitem>
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