David Timms schrieb:
> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> David Timms schrieb:
>> And I don't know if the vmware license even allows to ship only the
>> kernel modules.
> I was thinking that the user would still use the normal route to get
> vmware's software, and hence be abiding by their software license. The
> basic problem with vmware's package {vmware-server-1.0.1...} is that it
> doesn't require other packages {and hence force them to be installed}
> that are needed before the kernel modules can be compiled on a
> particular distro such as our foss only fedora.
>
> I can see that after a new kernel and reboot, vmware detects that {I
> believe} it can no longer load it's kernel modules, and warns that the
> user needs to recompile them. I was thinking more of a way in which the
> {prerequisites} package could trigger the running of the supplied config
> script, if it finds it already installed. If the script isn't already
> installed, then it would do nothing.
Sounds nice, but I really doubt a bit that Extras is the proper place
for this. Just my 2 cent. The same is true for the answers below:
>>> Any thoughts on possibilities and on incorporating such in extras ?
>> I don't think it's possible or makes to much sense in Extras.
> Is that because it would give the end user the impression that the
> package is vmware itself ?
Well, it will be confusing as you can't even have a a dep on the vmware
rpm. I think that might be acceptable in a 3rd party repo.
> Or because it isn't FOSS ?
That's part of the reason.
> {and xen is coming along nicely}
/me uses vmware on one machine currently as xen doesn't support cpufreq
yet in Fedora's kernel
> Or because it doesn't really do anything in itself ? {I vaguely remember
> someone mentioned that this sort of thing makes more sense to be done
> in groups files within a repo}
No, I think that's no problem.
>> Maybe you have more luck in one of the 3rd party repos.
> Good point. Or my,our internal repo.
>
> Thanks for your input :)
>
> In reading between the lines, I guess it would make more sense to
> encourage vmware to insert the correct dependencies for compilation, or
> provide a -devel package that requires the bits needed to recompile
> their modules.
The best for everyone would probably: ask vmware to ship the kernel
modules (patches for the latest kernel with any-any) and/or the complete
RPM in 3rd party add-on repos. That would make using the stuff much easier.
> Having not tried other rpm based distros for a long time,
> is there much common in the way redhat/fedora package compared to say
> suse etc ?
Different package names and layouts for the same/similar packages are
probably the biggest problems. But I might be wrong on that, I have
never packaged much for other dists.
Cu
thl
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