Open-vm-tools port available for testing

Terry Sposato terry at sucked-in.com
Thu Mar 27 17:00:46 PDT 2008


Martin Blapp wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've just made a port for FreeBSD 7 and FreeBSD 6 for the
> Open-vmware-tools. Any Feedback is welcome.
> 
> http://antispam.imp.ch/patches/open-vmware-tools-freebsd-port.tgz
> 
> -- 
> Martin
> 
> Martin Blapp, <mb at imp.ch> <mbr at FreeBSD.org>
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Martin,

Thanks for doing this, seems to be some problems with the downloading of 
the tarball though. See below:

[sugar-backup][~/open-vmware-tools]# make config
===> No options to configure
[sugar-backup][~/open-vmware-tools]# make
=> open-vm-tools-2008.03.19-82724.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in 
/usr/ports/distfiles/.
=> Attempting to fetch from 
http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/open-vm-tools-FreeBSD7.0-i386-Build/.
fetch: 
http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/open-vm-tools-FreeBSD7.0-i386-Build/open-vm-tools-2008.03.19-82724.tar.gz: 
Not Found
=> Attempting to fetch from 
http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/open-vm-tools-FreeBSD7.0-i386-Build/.
fetch: 
http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/open-vm-tools-FreeBSD7.0-i386-Build/open-vm-tools-2008.03.19-82724.tar.gz: 
Moved Temporarily
=> Attempting to fetch from 
http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/open-vm-tools-FreeBSD7.0-i386-Build/.
fetch: 
http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/open-vm-tools-FreeBSD7.0-i386-Build/open-vm-tools-2008.03.19-82724.tar.gz: 
Moved Temporarily
=> Attempting to fetch from 
http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/open-vm-tools-FreeBSD7.0-i386-Build/.
fetch: 
http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/open-vm-tools-FreeBSD7.0-i386-Build/open-vm-tools-2008.03.19-82724.tar.gz: 
Moved Temporarily
=> Attempting to fetch from 
http://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/open-vm-tools-FreeBSD7.0-i386-Build/.
fetch: 
http://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/open-vm-tools-FreeBSD7.0-i386-Build/open-vm-tools-2008.03.19-82724.tar.gz: 
Moved Temporarily
=> Attempting to fetch from 
http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/open-vm-tools-FreeBSD7.0-i386-Build/.
fetch: 
http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/open-vm-tools-FreeBSD7.0-i386-Build/open-vm-tools-2008.03.19-82724.tar.gz: 
Moved Temporarily
=> Attempting to fetch from 
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/.
fetch: 
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/open-vm-tools-2008.03.19-82724.tar.gz: 
File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
=> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
=> port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /root/open-vmware-tools.

This diff file seems to work however:

[sugar-backup][~/open-vmware-tools]# diff -Nru Makefile.old Makefile
--- Makefile.old        2008-03-28 10:43:36.000000000 +1100
+++ Makefile    2008-03-28 10:43:58.000000000 +1100
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  # $FreeBSD: ports/emulators/vmware-guestd6/Makefile,v 1.50 2008/03/07 
21:47:33 flz Exp $
  #

-PORTNAME=      open-vm-tools-FreeBSD${OSREL}-${ARCH}-Build
+PORTNAME=      open-vm-tools
  PORTVERSION=   ${BUILD_VER}
  CATEGORIES=    emulators kld
  DISTNAME=      open-vm-tools-${RELEASE_DATE}-${BUILD_VER}

Regards,

Terry

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