Bug 251546

Summary:	app-emulation/vmware-server-console bundles internal copies of expat-1.95.7 and libpng-1.2.22
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo VMWare Bug Squashers [disabled] <vmware+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED LATER
Severity:	normal	CC:	esigra, rbu
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	251464, 280615

Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-12-18 21:05:56 UTC

yamato ~ # ./test-expat /opt/vmware/server/console/lib/lib/libexpat.so.0/libexpat.so.0
expat version in /opt/vmware/server/console/lib/lib/libexpat.so.0/libexpat.so.0: expat_1.95.7
yamato ~ # ./test-libpng /opt/vmware/server/console/lib/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0
libpng version in /opt/vmware/server/console/lib/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: 1.2.22

Comment 1 Mike Auty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-12-18 22:22:01 UTC

That's true, but I'm not sure what best I can do about it.  Vmware mixes proprietary libraries with system libraries.  When the versions mismatch, they fall back to their bundled versions.  If I remove those libraries, it's likely to cause horrible breakages in the future.  As to security, vmware periodically (and usually at the most frustrating times) release new versions that include fixes for such bundled software.

Have you any creative ideas for solving the problem, or shall I just mark this as WONTFIX?