add sdmp plugin as a separate package
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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open-vm-tools (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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open-vm-tools (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Christian Ehrhardt | ||
Focal |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Christian Ehrhardt |
Bug Description
[Impact]
* In the past a lack of updated open-vm-tools versions was found fatal
and therefore we agreed to regularly backport those to the latest LTS.
This is backporting the recent version 11.1 to Focal.
* The main bug for 11.0 is bug 1877672. But this time other than the
fixes/
plugin "sdmp" which I'd like to:
a) discuss separately fro the SRU process
b) have VMWare test explicitly as part of the verification
[Test Case]
* Test open-vm-tools done by VMWare QA Team as agreed for these
backports. In this case please explicitly test the sdmp functionality,
not the general regression check.
[Regression Potential]
* As I said this bug is especially for the sdmp plugin. I doubt it will
regress anyone since it is not installed by default (only a suggests).
The only (unlikely) case I can tihnk of is if someone does like
apt install open-vm-*
or something like that. But even in that case the plugin does not do
much until actually probed from the host.
[Other Info]
* This is a practice for or quite a while (almost two years now), see:
- https:/
- https:/
- https:/
- https:/
- https:/
- https:/
The request back then came from the community and the decision back then was between VMWare and Ubuntu. VMWare QA Team since then does the qualification of these uploads as we (I) don't have a matrix of Host versions for that around.
Under the accepted special SRU cases [1] this qualifies for #2 and #3 of [2].
[1]: https:/
[2]: https:/
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Version 11.1.0 adds the sdmp plugin, see https:/
This should be in an optional separate package. Attached is a patch for the Debian scripts that would create this package. This has been used in our internal testing. Note that there is an additional runtime dependency on net-tools for netstat.
Also at Debian: https:/
Thanks,
Oliver
Related branches
- Rafael David Tinoco (community): Approve
- Canonical Server packageset reviewers: Pending requested
- Canonical Server: Pending requested
- git-ubuntu developers: Pending requested
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Diff: 16 lines (+8/-0)1 file modifieddebian/changelog (+8/-0)
Changed in open-vm-tools (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in open-vm-tools (Debian): | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
Changed in open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Focal): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
assignee: | nobody → Christian Ehrhardt (paelzer) |
tags: | added: server-next |
description: | updated |
Thank you for taking the time to file a bug report.
The version 11.1.0 is still not available either in Ubuntu nor in Debian. Since the Debian maintainer is considering/ reviewing your patch and currently we have no delta on top of the package coming from Debian, I'd prefer to get it accepted in Debian and then sync it to Ubuntu. Let's see how responsive the Debian maintainer will be.