open-vm-tools for Fedora

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 15.10.2008 11:39, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> 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.