Re: source for open-vm-tools 8.3.17?

[Brian R. <rei...@nu...>]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 01:44:54PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> 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.

Well, that does explain that. :/

Is anyone on this list familiar with anyone's effort to package the
open-source VMware tools for CentOS 5.8?  Or any non-too-bleeding-edge
Fedora Core distro?

> Thanks,
> Dnmitry

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Brian Reichert				<rei...@nu...>
BSD admin/developer at large