Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (626 mails)

[Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Dienstag 18 März 2008 schrieb Pavol Rusnak:
> Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > Not really, no. Placing it here allows others to support or object
> > the request. And if it makes sense, there are enough developers
> > subscribed to put it to work :)
>
> Stephan: I just submitted open-vm-tools to STABLE. According to
> reception on this (and other lists), it would be good idea to push this
> package into distribution. Dominique also suggested that it should be
> installed (with correct kernel module) automagically when YaST detects
> VMware host. I talked to YaST folks and we could use following methods:
>
> a) package supplements PCI ID of VMware hardware, but this solution is
>    not clean and requires increased maintenance
This is what our policy is.

> b) use HAL to detect VMware hardware - much cleaner
>    - for example, YaST detects XFS partitions and if it founds any,
>      package xfsprogs is installed
Because the xfsprogs has supplements: filesystem(xfs) in there.

Greetings, Stephan

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