Re: source for open-vm-tools 8.3.17?

[Dmitry T. <dt...@vm...>]

Hi Brian,

I know it is very confusing, but vmware-open-vm-tools-* packages that reside 
on http://packages.vmware.com/ are not open-vm-tools packages, they are for 
proprietary version of VMware Tools, matching one shipped with the product 
(AKA the TAR installer). We do not distribute (nor do we have) the source RPMs 
for them as they are built in a different fashion.

The name was chosen very poorly indeed and was corrected in 5.0 and later 
releases.

Thanks,
Dnmitry

On Wednesday, March 06, 2013 03:54:22 PM Brian Reichert wrote:
> I'm trying to find RPMs for CentOS 5.8 (using a PAE kernel) _and
> the corresponding source_ of these RPMs:
> 
>   vmware-open-vm-tools-common
>   vmware-open-vm-tools-kmod
> 
> The latest versions of the RPMs seems to be here:
> 
>   http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/4.1u3/rhel5/i686
> 
>   vmware-open-vm-tools-common-8.3.17-784891.el5.i686.rpm
>   vmware-open-vm-tools-kmod-8.3.17-784891.el5.i686.rpm
> 
> For the latter (kmod) I can find the source RPM:
> 
>   http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/4.1u3/rhel5/SRPMS/
> 
> But I can't find the source RPM for vmware-open-vm-tools-common.
> 
> >From the Sourceforge site's download links, I can't find 8.3.7.
> 
> (If I look at the developer snapshots, I can see changelist numbers
> that span 784891, but I'm not in the mood to guess at the differences.)
> 
> I'm willing to roll my own RPMs, if someone can provide an applicable
> SPEC file.  Is there an offical one?