On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 01:44:54PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > Hi Brian, > > I know it is very confusing, but vmware-open-vm-tools-* packages that reside > on http://packages.vmware.com/ are not open-vm-tools packages, they are for > proprietary version of VMware Tools, matching one shipped with the product > (AKA the TAR installer). We do not distribute (nor do we have) the source > RPMs > for them as they are built in a different fashion. > > The name was chosen very poorly indeed and was corrected in 5.0 and later > releases.
Well, that does explain that. :/ Is anyone on this list familiar with anyone's effort to package the open-source VMware tools for CentOS 5.8? Or any non-too-bleeding-edge Fedora Core distro? > Thanks, > Dnmitry -- Brian Reichert <[email protected]> BSD admin/developer at large ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remains a good choice" in the endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-discuss
