Package: vmware-package Version: 0.15 Severity: wishlist Thanks for the nice packaging tool. I am amased about the modularity and many features supporting many VMware products, but it was a quite cumbersome for the first time building vmware-server: 1) in order to get it working one needs several packages from various archives: vmware-server, vmware-server-blobs, vmware-server-console and vmware-server-kernel-modules. This is not abvious, hard to remember and is not documented anywhere. Moreover the sequence of downloading, building and installing various packages is important (i.e. one cannot install vmware-server without installing vmware-server-kernel-modules which cannot be built if vmware-server-kernel-source is not installed).
2) module-assistant is not mentioned anywhere (had to google a bit to discover this, even though I knew it for nvidia modules). 3) the target name "vmware-server-kernel" for module-assistant is hard to remember (I allways try vmware-kernel and wonder why it does not work), moreover vmware-server-kernel is not mentioned in the list of module-assistant modules. To fix all these, I suggest adding a sequence of example commands in the make-vmpkg manual with correct order. I realize that this is hard to cover all possible combinations, but at least one example clearifying possible dependencies and solutions would be of great help. Thanks! -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.9-cfs-v22 (PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=lt_LT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=lt_LT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages vmware-package depends on: ii bzip2 1.0.3-7 high-quality block-sorting file co ii debhelper 5.0.53 helper programs for debian/rules ii dpkg-dev 1.14.5 package building tools for Debian ii fakeroot 1.8 Gives a fake root environment ii file 4.21-3 Determines file type using "magic" ii make 3.81-3 The GNU version of the "make" util ii module-assistant 0.10.11 tool to make module package creati ii python 2.4.4-6 An interactive high-level object-o Versions of packages vmware-package recommends: ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.19-3 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.20.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.3-7 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libcairo2 1.4.10-1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libcairomm-1.0-1 1.4.2-1 C++ wrappers for Cairo (shared lib ii libcroco3 0.6.1-1 a generic Cascading Style Sheet (C ii libexpat1 1.95.8-4 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.3.5-1+b1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.2-1 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.14.0-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libglibmm-2.4-1c2a 2.12.10-0.1 C++ wrapper for the GLib toolkit ( ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.14.0-3 A powerful object-oriented display pn libgnomecanvasmm-2.6-1c <none> (no description available) ii libgsf-1-114 1.14.7-1 Structured File Library - runtime ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.0-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a 1:2.10.10-0.2 C++ wrappers for GTK+ 2.4 (shared ii libpango1.0-0 1.18.2-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-2 PNG library - runtime ii librsvg2-2 2.18.2-1 SAX-based renderer library for SVG ii libsexy2 0.1.11-2 collection of additional GTK+ widg pn libsexymm2 <none> (no description available) ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.17-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ pn libssl0.9.7 <none> (no description available) ii libview2 0.6.0-2 VMware's Incredibly Exciting Widge ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library ii libxau6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 authorisation library ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.9-1 X cursor management library ii libxdmcp6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 Display Manager Control Protoc ii libxext6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxfixes3 1:4.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio ii libxft2 2.1.12-2 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxi6 2:1.1.3-1 X11 Input extension library ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.2-1 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxml2 2.6.30.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library ii libxrandr2 2:1.2.2-1 X11 RandR extension library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.3-1 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxtst6 2:1.0.3-1 X11 Testing -- Resource extension ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-5 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]