Re: VMware Tools OSPs

[Sean D. <se...@du...>]

Ragavan S wrote:
> [cross-posting to both the announce and devel lists]
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> A couple of days ago VMware announced the general availability of
> VMware Tools Operating System Specific Packages (OSPs) for several
> Linux distributions. Using OSPs, enterprise customers virtualizing
> Linux on VI will be able to install/update/manage their VMware Tools
> installations using the guest operating systems' native packaging
> format (rpm, deb etc) and update mechanisms (apt, yum, rug, etc).
> 
> More details including a list of supported ESX releases, guest
> operating systems, documentation and package repository are available
> from the OSP web page at http://packages.vmware.com.
> 
> Naturally, this is bound to raise several questions related to OSPs
> and open-vm-tools. To help answer some of the common ones, we've put
> together this short Q&A page on the open-vm-tools project wiki page at
> http://open-vm-tools.wiki.sourceforge.net/OSP.
> 
> Please take a look and let us know if you have any additional
> questions/comments on this topic.
> 

Thanks for putting these out.  I think they'll be a great help.

Where's the best place to report bugs on them?

For instance, I just started looking at the packages for RHEL5 and 
noticed an issue.  /usr/lib/vmware-tools/functions makes use of 
'lsb_release' yet none of the packages actually require redhat-lsb which 
provides lsb_release.