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Bug 544182 - app-emulation/open-vm-tools-9.10.0.2476743 - version bump
Summary: app-emulation/open-vm-tools-9.10.0.2476743 - version bump
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal with 2 votes (vote)
Assignee: Mike Gilbert
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Reported: 2015-03-23 04:29 UTC by kundarsa@gmail.com
Modified: 2015-05-07 01:07 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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ebuild (open-vm-tools-9.10.0.2476743.ebuild,2.65 KB, text/plain)
2015-03-23 04:29 UTC, kundarsa@gmail.com
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Description kundarsa@gmail.com 2015-03-23 04:29:06 UTC
Created attachment 399526 [details]
ebuild

Version bump for open-vm-tools released on 2015-03-19
maintainer Mike Gilbert - floppym@gentoo.org

added dependencies xml-security-c, xerces-c

Removed src_prepare comment filtering out -Werror from configure.ac. open vmware tools still insists on -Werror flag as of 2015-01-01 ( http://sourceforge.net/p/open-vm-tools/tracker/182/#f8e3 ). left -Werror beeing removed from Makefile in src_configure

removed CUSTOME_PROCPS_ stuff as ./configure finds procps properly
removed --with-procps and --with-dnet as these are enabled without specifying them



Have not yet gone over src_install() to check for differences in this new version.
Comment 1 Massimo Burcheri 2015-04-21 12:40:48 UTC
Compiles and works.
Just "Cycle multiple monitors" fails with "..cannot use multiple monitors..virtual machine must have up-to-date VMware Tools installed and running".

Please add to the tree. We definitly need a recent open-vm-tools.
Please remove or rename the 2013* ebuilds for correct sorting.
Comment 2 kundarsa@gmail.com 2015-04-21 21:12:33 UTC
still need to get modules working. The vmhgfs (VMWare Host Guest File System) portion builds and works fine for shares but the other one does not build. it does look like a patch is available.

https://github.com/davispuh/open-vm-tools/commit/08836a47c56b47b658025e41a20027c5d915f836
Comment 3 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev 2015-04-21 21:24:02 UTC
I'll try to give this some love soon.
Comment 4 kundarsa@gmail.com 2015-04-21 21:42:57 UTC
(In reply to kundarsa from comment #2)
> still need to get modules working. The vmhgfs (VMWare Host Guest File
> System) portion builds and works fine for shares but the other one does not
> build. it does look like a patch is available.
> 
> https://github.com/davispuh/open-vm-tools/commit/
> 08836a47c56b47b658025e41a20027c5d915f836

that link is for a different branch and needs to be ignored, sorry :(

so its still the same issues. modify configure so only vmhgfs module builds until patch is available for the open-vm-tools-kmnod.ebuild rev bump (which isn't on our bugzilla).

unless libmspack dep comes into the tree (it's an easy ebuild but it's configure ignores disable of static libs) our open vm tools wont support VMWare Site Recovery Manager.

Still need to look into vgauth (guest authentication is not compiling either and i don't remember why).

so yes this ebuild works for simple setups with VMWare workstation or ESXI. But we wont have the above mentioned items for enterprise or data center environments.
Comment 5 Michael Gorbach 2015-05-06 22:00:31 UTC
Just giving this a +1. Thanks for your work and it'd be great to get a newer open-vm-tools. The version currently in Portage has a nasty full-system hang on any backup or snapshot when using NFSv4.

https://communities.vmware.com/message/2504572#2504572
Comment 6 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev 2015-05-06 22:58:07 UTC
I'm working on it. The new version has several new deps, so it's taking a bit longer than expected.
Comment 7 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev 2015-05-07 01:07:05 UTC
If there are any problems, please let me know.

+*open-vm-tools-9.10.0_p2476743 (07 May 2015)
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+  07 May 2015; Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
+  +open-vm-tools-9.10.0_p2476743.ebuild:
+  Version bump, bug 544182. Thanks to Thomas Donnelly.