Re: [open-vm-tools-devel] RPM packages?

[Justin M. F. <jmf...@li...>]

On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 17:23 -0800, Elliot Lee wrote:
> I agree 100% that it'd be nice to get more packages made. Here's what I know
> about distro packages so far:
> 
> . Debian has a package in contrib/experimental (
> http://packages.debian.org/open-vm-tools )
> . Ubuntu has a page for it at https://launchpad.net/open-vm-tools , but
> doesn't seem to have packaged it yet. They may wind up getting in there via
> Debian.
> . Gentoo is working on a package (
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192377 )
> . Fedora won't include the kernel modules unless they're included in the
> upstream Linux kernel, but someone has started packaging things in Livna.
> See http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1664 and
> http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1665
> . Don't know what's going on with OpenSUSE.
> . Any other distros people care about? Heiko, how is DevilLinux going? :)


rPath Linux has open-vm-tools packaged and is shipping it enabled by
default on vmware flavors of the distro (and many users appliances).
Foresight Linux is coming soon.

Justin