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Bug 564352 - hal dependency is not welcomed in rhn-client-tools
Summary: hal dependency is not welcomed in rhn-client-tools
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: rhn-client-tools
Version: 6.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: beta
: ---
Assignee: Jan Pazdziora
QA Contact: Petr Sklenar
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On: 557059 582644 582668 583665 591809 595669
Blocks: 519838 575256
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-02-12 13:53 UTC by Peter Vrabec
Modified: 2010-06-21 07:43 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

Fixed In Version: rhn-client-tools-1.0.0-5.el6
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2010-06-21 07:33:37 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
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Description Peter Vrabec 2010-02-12 13:53:14 UTC 
Description of problem:
Would be possible to replace/get rid of hal dependency in rhn-client-tools. My reason for this proposal is that hal harms minimal platform feature in RHEL6. Hal has another requirements as polkit, ConsoleKit, dbus, ... . We were able to get rid of these but now they are back again because of hal dependencie in  rhn-client-tools.

https://bu-platform.devel.redhat.com/PMRHEL6/rhel6/features/packaging-and-distribution/minimal-package-install


There are probably also another reasons for replacing hal. As far as I know hal is deprecated component. Supporting deprecated component in RHEL6 life cycle must not be the best idea.
Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2010-02-12 14:22:53 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux major release.  Product Management has requested further
review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux Major release.  This request is not yet committed for
inclusion.
Comment 3 Miroslav Suchý 2010-03-23 15:54:45 UTC 
Work done in spacewalk git in zilions commits. We will rebase to spacewalk version in rhel6 as soon as jpazdiora finish his work on "Removal of installation numbers"
Comment 4 Miroslav Suchý 2010-03-23 15:59:07 UTC 
commits:
e2b85527dfaf9f959062b5ba49f9e612167c57ae

448771f441a7babd1bb456b8c59de744305e07a1
732afb4ebea67000ec7b80df491aee594342c74f

a06aae19db08f97cad92da36a1c57ad789fd6fc8
ed38550bdd055aa27eae5a82957cd71ce0b58c21

620c020e90b5b271327ee91f855a534344d5de24..6321c11209995db17d33a0d560de7b21e4cb5d36
2c2cc694b58845e06bac00fe90eb9ee55704dd42..f77fa2adb53be726e8856c92c3c498caf502ac09
6949426d743954b3e259b280f1ced75dd8c6c48d..c3ee1aa85c631dfce29dbb0009f832a25b01b6fc
d7997108763bf8ac221a0b089407646e5e836f17..2e0a87cd2a120b7408315b6d5e63ff35e9417d6a
dea1b88ce70fa49d6f7f12cd90026e59d90734f4..5a420638be55f710b47e3362a96d85818a2d159d
Comment 5 Petr Sklenar 2010-04-12 14:44:08 UTC 
qa_acked+
test procedure:
1. turn-off hal and try registering on various arch/virtual guests, see hw info on webUI, packges python-gudev and  python-dmidecode have to be installed
2. turn-on hal and try registering - there should be same hw info 
3. install minimal platform up to comment 0 and try registering
Comment 6 Petr Sklenar 2010-05-10 09:45:33 UTC 
removal of hal deps caused regression in these bugs: 582644 582668 583665
Comment 7 Miroslav Vadkerti 2010-05-11 10:21:29 UTC 
As this bug blocks a Beta 2 blocker feature, adding beta 2 blocker "flag". Also raising priority to high to get attention.
Comment 8 Jan Pazdziora 2010-05-13 09:09:46 UTC 
Taking.
Comment 9 Jan Pazdziora 2010-05-13 10:33:27 UTC 
Adding one extra bug that was caused by the hal removal, bug 557059.
Comment 10 Jan Pazdziora 2010-05-13 12:08:03 UTC 
Moving to MODIFIED on its way to ON_QA, as all the three blockers (bug 557059, bug 582644, bug 583665) are MODIFIED now, and it's possible to have and use rhn-client-tools without hal:

# rpm -q hal rhn-client-tools
package hal is not installed
rhn-client-tools-1.0.0-4.git.34a64e923780cd6a7d9c293d39cdef220e975603.el6.noarch
Comment 18 Miroslav Vadkerti 2010-06-21 07:42:48 UTC 
Closed as fixed in current release
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