Bug#394138: ITP: vmware-package -- utility for building Vmware related Debian packages
tags #394138 pending thanks On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 06:45:08PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: vmware-package Version : 0.0 Upstream Author : Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : none yet * License : GPL Programming Lang: shell Description : utility for building Vmware related Debian packages I have uploaded the first version to experimental. For the time it has to spend in NEW, the package is available from http://ivanova.notwork.de/~mh/debian/. Greetings Marc -- - Marc Haber | I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things.Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 72739835 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#394138: ITP: vmware-package -- utility for building Vmware related Debian packages
On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 01:41:06AM +0100, Sam Morris wrote:
You might be interested in checking out some of the work I did on
packaging vmware. Debian diffs are available from
http://robots.org.uk/debian/unofficial/vmware/.
Would you be willing to co-maintain vmware-package? You seem to have
invested a lot of work.
I tried to integrate as much with Debian as possible. Easy stuff
included desktop entries, doc-base registration, and using existing
packages where they already exist in Debian (e.g., point the user at
dhcp3-server instead of shipping VMware's modified version).
My package does not do a lot of these. Patches would be appreciated.
Harder stuff included network setup, and replacing the init script with
if-{pre-post}-{up,down}.d scripts, which allows the user to configure
their virtual networks by editing /etc/networking/interfaces.
That looks quite neat.
I have preliminary packages on http://ivanova.notwork.de/~mh/debian. I
am going to test them on a clean system and against Debian kernel
sources later this week. There seems to be an issue of the dhcp daemon
answering requests on non-vmnet interfaces.
Greetings
Marc
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Bug#394138: ITP: vmware-package -- utility for building Vmware related Debian packages
You might be interested in checking out some of the work I did on
packaging vmware. Debian diffs are available from
http://robots.org.uk/debian/unofficial/vmware/.
I tried to integrate as much with Debian as possible. Easy stuff
included desktop entries, doc-base registration, and using existing
packages where they already exist in Debian (e.g., point the user at
dhcp3-server instead of shipping VMware's modified version).
Harder stuff included network setup, and replacing the init script with
if-{pre-post}-{up,down}.d scripts, which allows the user to configure
their virtual networks by editing /etc/networking/interfaces.
The biggest problems I had were:
* ifupdown fails to handle the failure of
if-{pre,post}-{up,down}.d scripts. Instead, the interface is
blindly set into the target state.
* VMware seem to make a lot of modifications to the libraries they
use, and some of them are no longer binary compatible. Getting
vmware to work at all without segfaulting took a lot of trial
and error. In the end it works, but the user's GTK theme is not
applied to vmware's controls.
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Bug#394138: ITP: vmware-package -- utility for building Vmware related Debian packages
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: vmware-package Version : 0.0 Upstream Author : Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : none yet * License : GPL Programming Lang: shell Description : utility for building Vmware related Debian packages This package provides the capability to create Debian packages for various VMware products and related software by obtaining VMware tarballs and then just running make-vmpkg. It can currently build Debian packages for the following VMware and VMware related products: * VMware kernel modules for Linux, using the vmware-any-any tarball It is planned to extend make-vmkg to build Debian packages for the following VMware products: * VMware Player 1.0.2 Please note that you need to download the corresponding tarballs yourself, and that the resulting .deb files are non-free and non-distributeable. The package is meant to aid a local admin to roll out VMware products to their local systems by means of the packaging system. Greetings Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#394138: ITP: vmware-package -- utility for building Vmware related Debian packages
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 11:16:59AM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote: On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 06:45:08PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: Please note that you need to download the corresponding tarballs yourself, and that the resulting .deb files are non-free and non-distributeable. Is it not possible to do a wget to fetch these images as part of the package postinstall? I'd like people to explicitly know that they're building something non-free and non-distributeable. At least the vmware-player itself requires an EULA before download is allowed. vmware-any-any is freely available for download, yes. It just seems that if you're expecting users to download a tarball anyway that automating things further is a little strange. My goal is to have the files properly registered with the packaging system. Automating things is a side-effect of that. Greetings Marc -- - Marc Haber | I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things.Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 72739835 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#394138: ITP: vmware-package -- utility for building Vmware related Debian packages
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 06:45:08PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: Please note that you need to download the corresponding tarballs yourself, and that the resulting .deb files are non-free and non-distributeable. Is it not possible to do a wget to fetch these images as part of the package postinstall? (ie. Like the flashplugin ) It just seems that if you're expecting users to download a tarball anyway that automating things further is a little strange. Steve -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#394138: ITP: vmware-package -- utility for building Vmware related Debian packages
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 12:20:04PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: I'd like people to explicitly know that they're building something non-free and non-distributeable. At least the vmware-player itself requires an EULA before download is allowed. vmware-any-any is freely available for download, yes. I would assume that anybody would know that already. But again the non-free flash plugin (and java packages) automate the agreement to the license as part of the post-install. I guess I'm not really complaining, so much as hoping that if there were a package that installing it would be sufficient alone. I'll not object any more, but if you do manage to find a way to do the agreement + wget I'm sure people would find it simpler to use. My goal is to have the files properly registered with the packaging system. Automating things is a side-effect of that. Thats a great goal :) Steve -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature
