Hi, On 08/27/2011 03:38 AM, dj_palindrome wrote: > I'm resorting to this venue only because the Debian package maintainers > of open-vm-tools do not even classify their own bug reports, much less > actually respond to them, much less actually produce a package based on > anything later than 8.4.2, even for non-stable release branches. The > obvious conclusion is that they have just vanished, and their "bosses" > have failed to notice, because they don't seem to have replaced them. > > The result is that there is no working DKMS, and their source package > Debian package fails to build by any other means, such as > module-assistant, on any recent kernel, because their source tree is so old.
We don't really know most distro packagers (some of them hang out in the open-vm-tools development list, but my guess is that most don't or at least are not active), but I wouldn't lay the blame completely on them. We've not done a very good job of releasing stable versions of open-vm-tools or of keeping the current stable version up-to-date. So the problems you're having with DKMS are probably just a reflection of that. On that note, we do plan to refresh the stable version some time soon, pending some internal milestones, and we plan to do a better job at keeping them up-to-date with support for newer kernels. Hopefully, since it will be a new stable package, Debian (and others who shy away from the development releases) will pick it up once it's released. -- - Marcelo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EMC VNX: the world's simplest storage, starting under $10K The only unified storage solution that offers unified management Up to 160% more powerful than alternatives and 25% more efficient. Guaranteed. http://p.sf.net/sfu/emc-vnx-dev2dev _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-discuss
