Bug 47815 – Version bump for VMware-console to support VMware GSX 3.0

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Jacob Gemmell 2004-04-14 11:33:35 UTC]

Can I get a version bump or a new ebuild  for the vmware console to support vmware-console 3.0.0-7592?  The new VMware console is backwards compatible with previous versions of the GSX Server.

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-04-26 06:30:31 UTC]

I'll look into it.

[Comment 2 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-05-17 05:20:28 UTC]

Jacob, would you send me an email so we can discuss something outside of bugzilla?  I have sent you emails on 2 occasions and have not gotten a response from you.

[Comment 3 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-05-21 12:09:43 UTC]

Added to CVS.  Thanks for the help in getting this going.

[Comment 4 Josh Glover (RETIRED) 2004-06-03 10:57:05 UTC]

Created attachment 32605 [details]
app-emulation/vmware-console-3.0.0.7592.ebuild (Update)

Does the ebuild in Portage work? I wrote an ebuild for it as well (I wrote the
original ebuild for 2.x.x) before I noticed that there was one in Portage, and
found that if I did not put this bit of sed magic in at the top of src_install:


src_install () {
	# Fix the path in vmware-console
	sed -i -e 's|\(/bin/vmware-console\)|/opt/vmware/lib\1|' \
	  bin/vmware-console

/usr/bin/vmware-console would bomb out with the following error:

ldd: /bin/vmware-console: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/vmware-console: line 189: /bin/vmware-console: No such file or
directory
/usr/bin/vmware-console: line 189: exec: /bin/vmware-console: cannot execute:
No such file or directory

Find my ebuild attached that corrects this issue.

[Comment 5 Josh Glover (RETIRED) 2004-06-03 10:58:58 UTC]

Please take a look at the comment attached to attachment #32605 [details].

I am willing to take over maintaining the vmware-console ebuilds, since I use vmware-console on a daily basis and my company uses GSX heavily. Is that OK with you, Chris?

[Comment 6 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-06-03 11:11:10 UTC]

vmware-console is all yours... ;]

I only ended up with it because I'm the maintainer for vmware-workstation.  I don't even use GSX/ESX, so I was having to get the tarballs from users to be able to even make digests, so yeah... it would probably be a good idea to have someone else interested take it over.

Be sure to change the metadata.xml!

*grin*

I'm glad I could hand it off to someone that uses it.

[Comment 7 Josh Glover (RETIRED) 2004-06-03 14:30:43 UTC]

OK, I will take vmware-console and make the necessary update to metadata.xml.

My ebuild is shite, BTW, so don't anyone use it before it makes it into Portage! I am working on a *real* fix right now.

[Comment 8 Josh Glover (RETIRED) 2004-06-03 20:43:04 UTC]

Created attachment 32623 [details]
app-emulation/vmware-console-3.0.0.7592.ebuild (Update)

Might as well stick my latest ebuild up here so that anyone browsing this bug
does not attempt to use the rubbish one.

[Comment 9 Josh Glover (RETIRED) 2004-06-03 20:44:42 UTC]

My ebuild is in CVS. I did not bump the revision as I doubt there are too many vmware-console users out there. vmware-console users, please check it out and let me know how it works so that we can get this marked stable ASAP!