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

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

Ragavan S wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> I've started a wiki page to start keeping track of this information.
> http://open-vm-tools.wiki.sourceforge.net/Distro+Package+Status
> 

Thanks for keeping track of that.

> By the way, I am curious to see if you or the other packagers found
> the packaging guidelines doc helpful.
> http://open-vm-tools.wiki.sourceforge.net/Packaging
> 
> Are there any other pieces of information we can provide that would
> make your jobs easier?
> 

I did find the packaging page to be quite useful.  However, there are a 
couple pieces of extra information that would be useful.

For a lot of the components, I'm not really sure what they do, which 
makes it hard to know how to package them.  For instance, I made the 
guess that 'vmblock' is used for drag-and-drop (something ESX users 
don't have to use).  However, its not clear to me if its used for 
anything else.  Likewise, most of the other components don't have what 
they're used for specified.

I'd also like to note that the Packaging page references 
vmware-xferlogs, which isn't actually available in the source download.


Thanks,


Sean