Hi Oliver, Please help me to answer this too, thanks in advance!
Best regards, Yanui On 5/30/16, 7:21 PM, "Bernd Zeimetz" <be...@bzed.de> wrote: >Hi, > >> VGAuth service was disabled in open-vm-tools 9.4.6 included in Debian >>7.9 >> & 7.10 & 8.2 & 8.3 & 8.4. This needs to enabled as soon as possible >> because it makes open-vm-tools in Debian less usable than VMware Tools. > >first you should realize that you should not treat Debian point releases >as a different release on its own. This was the case for Debian 3 and 4. >For you there should never be a visible difference between Debian 8.1 >and 8.4. > >open-vm-tools 9.4.6 was basically built with a simple 'configure; make; >make install' - and looking at the build logs like > >https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__buildd.debian.org_sta >tus_fetch.php-3Fpkg-3Dopen-2Dvm-2Dtools-26arch-3Di386-26ver-3D2-253A9.4.6- >2D1770165-2D8-26stamp-3D1423826483&d=CwIDaQ&c=Sqcl0Ez6M0X8aeM67LKIiDJAXVeA >w-YihVMNtXt-uEs&r=EWtp6eb9bfT1h5Xz7k40uBCAtmHtQpbLBghzeC1lnEY&m=BKOIhfGkeW >Fg4U83sLqhKxaOmrNqKJ3c-YqRoh6gwak&s=_U14HMgIEXHyVNtZ2aZwHV6rheSVK4UmNnhPfd >6JnpY&e= > >you will see, that configure did not complain about missing things, it >also just did not build vgauth. So I could not know something is missing. > > >To avoid such things, please test open-vm-tools in Debian testing and/or >unstable. > > >There is a backport of the last 10.0.7 release in wheezy-backports and >jessie-backports. Please use it instead of the package from the release. >Also if you are interested in using the latest open-vm-tools version in >a stable, please use backports. If possible I'll backport the current >version to stable and oldstable. > >In stable Debian releases we'll only add bugfixes, no new features. > > >Best regards, > >Bernd > >-- > Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer > >https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__bzed.de&d=CwIDaQ&c=Sqc >l0Ez6M0X8aeM67LKIiDJAXVeAw-YihVMNtXt-uEs&r=EWtp6eb9bfT1h5Xz7k40uBCAtmHtQpb >LBghzeC1lnEY&m=BKOIhfGkeWFg4U83sLqhKxaOmrNqKJ3c-YqRoh6gwak&s=P9n4-BVKKy4jX >OxIM-6cx2uCBZb5ZVD832PhF9UmgR4&e= >https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.debian.org&d=CwIDa >Q&c=Sqcl0Ez6M0X8aeM67LKIiDJAXVeAw-YihVMNtXt-uEs&r=EWtp6eb9bfT1h5Xz7k40uBCA >tmHtQpbLBghzeC1lnEY&m=BKOIhfGkeWFg4U83sLqhKxaOmrNqKJ3c-YqRoh6gwak&s=Y8VZeI >wfWb6lOwezvRotp17P3G2TwUtCjdutGh6CrMM&e= > GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F
