[Bug 294341] Review Request: open-vm-tools-kmods - Kernel modules for open-vm-tools

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Summary: Review Request: open-vm-tools-kmods - Kernel modules for open-vm-tools


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=294341





------- Additional Comments From fedora at theholbrooks.org  2007-09-21 15:31 EST -------
This ticket reeks of bureaucracy so bad it's hard to come near it.  First it's
quite annoying that FESCo closed the door on kmods less than a week before I
submitted this pacakge, and they have yet to update the wiki, which I followed
word-for-word making this package.  As far as wiki readers are concerned, there
is still a tried-and-true method to getting kernel modules into Fedora.

I know I'm pleasantly separated from the complexities of kernel maintenance, but
I'm really struggling with how this is different from other packages I maintain.
 As a fedora contributor, I know my upstream packages well and subscribe to all
their {lists|forums|etc}, and more importantly I am willing to put forth any
effort required to keep this packages shipping with Fedora in an operable state.
 I maintain several php-pear and php-pecl packages.  Are you going to argue next
that separate php modules cause needless complexity to I should force jorton to
merge my modules and maintain them himself as part of php.rpm?  He may not know
the modules well or at all.  On top of all that, I am sitting here twiddling my
thumbs ready willing to do the voluntary packaging and maintenance work, why
should I force that work onto somebody else who may not be ready and willing?

What this all comes down to, open-vm-tools is a _HUGE_ new piece of software for
the community.  The ability to install linux in a virtual environment and have 
the guest vm tools come with the distro rocks.  Gentoo has already checked in a
changeset for it, and by Philip's testimony above, Ubuntu is somehow finding a
way through their own red tape to get this working "out of the box".  We all
know RHEL is the big player in the IT server market, but if every other linux
distro on the planet prepackages open-vm-tools except RHEL, that's really going
to hurt its credibility in the ESX community (which I believe is going to
explode in the next [235] years).  I don't care if I package it or the kernel
guys package it, but I'm not wasting my effort convincing the kernel guys to do
it when I'm willing to do it myself.

I'd like to reiterate Denis in Comment #8:
"How can we make this work into Fedora ? There are a lot of vmware users out
there, and I think not having open-vm-tools packaged hurts Fedora more that it
helps it."

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