On 15.10.2008 11:39, Peter Robinson wrote:
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
As mentioned earlier in this thread today:
Simply download those:
http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/open-vm-tools/5/SRPMS/open-vm-tools-0-0.20080620.el5.centos.src.rpm
http://install.dulug.duke.edu/pub/linux/add-on/distrib/centos-5/SRPMS/open-vm-tools-0-0.20080319.2.el5_2.src.rpm
http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/open-vm-tools/5/SRPMS/open-vm-tools-kmod-0-0.20080620.2.6.18_92.el5.src.rpm
http://install.dulug.duke.edu/pub/linux/add-on/distrib/centos-5/SRPMS/open-vm-tools-kmod-0-0.20080319.1.2.6.18_92.1.10.el5.src.rpm
merge each of the two and submit for review; if you need help then
contact me in private (I'll help with the modifications for the kmod2
stuff and I'll normally take care of rebuilding all the kmod for newly
released Fedora update kernels).
CU
knurd
P.S.: The base for the packages above iirc comes from Livna; see
http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1664
http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1665
I still have those packages on my hard disk somewhere.
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