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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