open-vm-tools for Fedora

[Adam Deacon]

On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 11:13 +0200, 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?

Hi

There are SRPMS which seem to work well, take a look here for the back
story.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=294341
http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1664
http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1665

Thanks

Adam
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