Confused about HAL for GNOME

[Jeff Wheeler <jeff%nokrev.com@localhost>]

Hi,

I'm trying to build meta-pkgs/gnome from the current pkgsrc, but I'm  
having the most trouble with HAL, which several programs seem to  
depend on (e.g. gnome-control-center and gnome-power-manager).

HAL fails to install on my machine, and I'm trying to figure out how  
things worked before a few days ago, when pkgsrc.se seems to indicate  
that HAL was added to pkgsrc [1]. I suspect I'm misinterpreting the  
site, but it seems to suggest that the package was added on the 23rd  
of this month.

I suspect HAL may compile successfully with a version prior to the  
recent updates, and I would guess the dependencies would also work  
with a slightly older version. Is there any way, with CVS, to bring  
just this package to the previous version before I make and install it?

Alternatively, maybe a better solution is to add the binary package  
for 4.0.1 (which I'm running) of HAL. The packages that depend on HAL  
would then be satisfied, correct?

I apologize if I'm posting this to the wrong place; I'm a NetBSD  
beginner.

Jeff Wheeler

[1] http://pkgsrc.se/sysutils/hal