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open-vm-tools package

  1. Bug #1741390
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 1741390

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Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer) wrote : Re: [Bug 1741390] Re: Package two years out of date

On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 10:35 PM, evade <email address hidden> wrote:
> Hello Christian,
> Thank you for your work on this! Sorry to hear about build problem. I hope it's not difficult to resolve. I am looking forward to trying this.

I can't spend like a full day on it, but if you are ok with me trying
to improve it step by step until it works then it is ok :-)

[...]

> The advice I've read from VMware [1] is to always use a vendor's open-vm-tools package.

Thanks for all of that.
I had assumed they'd prefer "their own", but I'm ok either way.
I kicked of an discussion about - if that is the stance taken - vmware
maybe assisting to qualify the backports to give the confidence needed
to SRU them.