On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dario Lesca wrote: >> >> Why Fedora not have in our standard repo the open-vm-tools package? >> >> http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/ >> >>> linux-0chi:~ # rpm -qi open-vm-tools-2008.04.14-21.1 >>> Name : open-vm-tools Relocations: (not relocatable) >>> Version : 2008.04.14 Vendor: SUSE LINUX >>> Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany >>> .... >>> Group : System/Emulators/PC Source RPM: >>> open-vm-tools-2008.04.14-21.1.src.rpm >>> Size : 1495998 License: BSD 3-Clause; GPL >>> v2 only; LGPL v2.1 only >>> .... >>> Summary : Open Virtual Machine Tools >>> Description : >>> Open Virtual Machine Tools (open-vm-tools) are the open source >>> implementation of VMware Tools. >> >> It's a License Problem? >> Or maintainer problem? > > Neither, it's that out-of-tree kernel modules aren't allowed in Fedora. > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=294341 Looks like a perfect candidate for rpmfusion.org Peter -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
