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Bug 352879

Summary: open-vm-tools: Missing vmware-xdg-detect-de script
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Dustin C. Hatch <dustin>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Vadim Kuznetsov (RETIRED) <vadimk>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: vmware+disabled
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Attachments: Patch to ebuild to install vmware-xdg-detect-de script

Description Dustin C. Hatch 2011-01-27 01:39:47 UTC
Recent versions of open-vm-tools include a new script, ``vmware-xdg-detect-de`` that is necessary to run the ``vmware-user-suid-wrapper`` application. It is included in the source tarball, but not in the merged installation. The script should be installed on the PATH.

The ``vmware-xdg-detect-de`` script can be found in the ``scripts/common`` directory in the source tarball.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge >=open-vm-tools-0.0.20101219.339835
2. run vmware-user-suid-wrapper


Actual Results:  
Executing ``vmware-user-suid-wrapper`` fails with the following printed to stderr::

    sh: vmware-xdg-detect-de: No such file or directory

Expected Results:  
The userspace utility should launch.
Comment 1 Dustin C. Hatch 2011-01-27 01:41:33 UTC
Created attachment 260826 [details, diff]
Patch to ebuild to install vmware-xdg-detect-de script

I believe a ``dobin`` command is all that's necessary to install the missing script. Here's the patch I used to add it.

I have applied this patch and bumped the ebuild revision to ``-r1`` in my (dustin) overlay, which is available through layman.
Comment 2 Vadim Kuznetsov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-02-06 14:57:58 UTC
fixed in the portage. thanks.