VMWare open-vm-tools adoption

[Ray Van Dolson]

On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 09:41:04PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> 
> 
> On 01.01.2008 20:55, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 11:22:37AM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
> >> I am interested in adopting the open-vm-tools packages as described here:
> >>
> >> http://thorstenl.blogspot.com/2007/12/vmware-util-and-driver-packages.html
> >>
> >> I've been supporting RHEL for the past several years and building
> >> local RPMs. It looks like we are probably going to be deploying Macs
> >> running VMWare Fusion to developers so I have a strong personal
> >> interest in open-vm-tools working. However, I'm not too keen on livna
> >> only since I usually use Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
> >> Does it sound reasonable to have it only in RPMFusion?
> > FYI, the tools are currently being packaged for CentOS:
> >   http://people.centos.org/~hughesjr/open-vm-tools/
> 
> Hehe, those are afaics based on
> http://install.linux.duke.edu/pub/linux/add-on/distrib/centos-5/SRPMS/
> which are based on the RPMs submitted to Livna's bugzilla.

Well, there ya go then!  Full circle. :)

Neat.

Ray