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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 2RHEL 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.
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"
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
removal of hal deps caused regression in these bugs: 582644 582668 583665
Comment 7Miroslav 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 8Jan Pazdziora (Red Hat)
2010-05-13 09:09:46 UTC
Taking.
Comment 9Jan Pazdziora (Red Hat)
2010-05-13 10:33:27 UTC
Adding one extra bug that was caused by the hal removal, bug 557059.
Comment 10Jan Pazdziora (Red Hat)
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 18Miroslav Vadkerti
2010-06-21 07:42:48 UTC