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Bug#593261: re-add wmi-client package



Hi Thomas,

On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 16:11 +0200, Thomas Hood wrote:
> Jelmer wrote:
> > Please note that wmi-client is different from winexe. Upstream for
> > wmi-client is Zenoss, and as far as I know they have not released their
> > changes under the GPLv3. winexe is basically a fork of a very out-dated
> > version Samba 4. It doesn't have anything to do with WMI as far as I can
> > tell from looking at the source code.
> 
> 
> At http://dev.zenoss.org/svn/trunk/wmi/Samba/source/winexe/
> there is an old (dated 2006) version of the winexe program.  License GPL2.

> The version at git://winexe.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/winexe/winexe
> (bearing the date 2009) is slightly different.  License GPL3.

This code doesn't have anything to do with wmi - it uses the svcctl
DCE/RPC interface (not WMI) to start an executable on the remote
machine. Merging it won't help with WMI support.

Cheers,

jelmer

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