Re: Recent SRPM for CentOS/RHEL 5.4?

[Denis L. <de...@po...>]

On 01/22/2010 08:01 PM, David Knierim wrote:
> I am attempting to put together some packages to install open-vm-tools
> on some CentOS 5.4 servers.   Does anyone have a SRPM that would be
> appropriate?   The most recent SRPM I could find used the 2008.12.23
> release of open-vm-tools and was for Fedora.
>
> Before I spend a lot of updating this SRPM to work with RHEL 5.4 and
> the latest version of open-vm-tools, is there a better place to start?

the latest fedora SRPM (for F-12) should just work for CentOS 5, most 
likely (you'll have to compile the kmod correctly). I'm planning to 
support rhel5 in the future on rpmfusion, so soon we'll provide binary 
RPMs for it.


http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/updates/12/SRPMS/open-vm-tools-0.0.0.217847-1.fc12.src.rpm

http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/updates/12/SRPMS/open-vm-tools-kmod-0.0.0.217847-1.fc12.1.src.rpm