these tools are now embedded in the tarball for vmware-workstation-5.0.0-x. the download location specified for tools tarball does not exist anymore. Only after installing a client can the tools be installed through the vmware screen. This ebuild is now obsolete. The following is from the vmware-linux-tools-5.0.0.ebuild # the vmware-tools sources are part of the vmware virtual machine; # they must be installed by hand MY_PN="VMwareTools-5.0.0-13124" SRC_URI="http://www.vmware.com/${MY_PN}.tar.gz" pkg_postinst () { einfo "To start using the vmware-tools, please run the following:" einfo einfo " /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl" einfo " rc-update add vmware-linux-tools default" einfo " /etc/init.d/vmware-linux-tools start" einfo einfo "Please report all bugs to http://bugs.gentoo.org/" } the url is inaccurate, and the above tools don't exist anymore. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge vmware-linux-tools 2. try and download tarball as instructed 3. Actual Results: can't do/can't do! Expected Results: I think this ebuild is obsolete and should be removed Must install a guest os and THEN install tools through the VM menu. There is no separate download
I disagree. This ebuild is NOT obsolete. It is true that the package is no longer available for download, however once you have the vm client up and running, selecing VM >> Install VMware Tools and then mounting /dev/hdc gets your the vmware-tools tarball. Simply move the file to the distfiles folder and run the ebuild. So I suggest rather than getting rid of this ebuild, it should be modified so that if the file does not exist in /usr/portage/distfiles folder, the user should be provided with instructions on how to get the tarball. By the way this ebuild does not work (5.0 version). That issue is covered in a different bug (88307).
closing due to lack of activity
closing because it's mine and nothing's been going on with it forever.
We close bugs on this end. Anyway, the "maintainer" for this package hasn't worked on any of his bugs regarding this package for over a year. Because of this, the Gentoo VMware team have now reclaimed the package. Expect to see some actual motion on the bugs related to it.
I have a lot of knowledge and experience w/VMW.Let me know if I can help from a QA/UA perspective, or with future ebuilds.
We removed this ebuild completely in favor of the 5.5.x ebuilds, since it is a free upgrade for anyone on the 5.x series.
