Bug 116846 – vmware-player 1.0.1 build 19317

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Minh Nguyen 2005-12-26 23:20:58 UTC]

Please create an ebuild for VMWare Player 1.0.1 Build 19317 and add it to portage. Thank you!

[Comment 1 John M. Drescher 2005-12-27 22:51:17 UTC]

The ebuild from vmware-player-1.0.0.18587 works. Setup a portage overlay at /usr/local/portage 

Then mkdir -p /usr/local/portage/app-emulation/vmware-player

then copy the entire tree from /usr/portage/app-emulation/vmware-player/ to /usr/local/portage/app-emulation/vmware-player/

Then cd to /usr/portage/app-emulation/vmware-player/

then mv vmware-player-1.0.0.18587.ebuild vmware-player-1.0.0.19317.ebuild 

then cd to files

and mv vmware-player-1.0.0.18587-config.patch vmware-player-1.0.0.19317-config.patch

Then cd ..

ebuild vmware-player-1.0.0.19317.ebuild digest

You now should be able to emerge...

[Comment 2 John M. Drescher 2005-12-27 23:00:19 UTC]

Sorry about that. Please ignore my last comment, the ebuild has a define which selects the previous version directly. I will check that and report back..

[Comment 3 John M. Drescher 2005-12-27 23:19:24 UTC]

Well after editing the line VMware-player-1.0.0-18587 to VMware-player-1.0.1-19317  in the ebuild and renaming things so that the ebuild and patch are vmware-player-1.0.1.19317.ebuild and vmware-player-1.0.1.19317-config.patch it worked (I successfully ran several virtual machines in the expected version).  I did have to do the ebuild vmware-player-1.0.1.19317.ebuild digest step again... 

[Comment 4 Waldo 2006-01-01 15:06:04 UTC]

In your fourth overlay instruction, I think you meant to cd to /usr/local/portage/app-emulation/vmware-player, not /usr/portage/app-emulation/vmware-player.

Aside from that, this worked great.

Happy New Year,

W

[Comment 5 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-01-04 10:56:01 UTC]

Added to CVS... thanks for the bug report...