Package: vmware-package Version: 0.21 Severity: minor This is a minor but annoying usability problem. The VMWare Server Linux client package available from VMWare's site comes as a zip that contains four other archives, including the server console itself. Unfortunately, when given this zip directly, make-vmpkg simply complains that it doesn't recognize it and aborts. I spent a long time searching for VMware-server-console-1.0.4-56528.tar.gz on VMWare's site before, on a whim, I looked inside the zip.
It would be better if make-vmpkg could at least recognize this file and tell the user to unpack it. It would be even better if it could simply extract VMware-server-console-1.0.4-56528.tar.gz from it on its own. The exact name of the latest downloadable zip is VMware-server-linux-client-1.0.4-56528.zip and its md5sum is 010d808baad4a87ba5931e1e8ad06351 The desired file can easily be extracted with unzip VMware-server-linux-client-1.0.4-56528.zip VMware-server-console-1.0.4-56528.tar.gz -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages vmware-package depends on: ii bzip2 1.0.3-7 high-quality block-sorting file co ii debhelper 5.0.57 helper programs for debian/rules ii dpkg-dev 1.14.7 package building tools for Debian ii fakeroot 1.8.2 Gives a fake root environment ii file 4.21-3 Determines file type using "magic" ii make 3.81-3 The GNU version of the "make" util ii module-assistant 0.10.11.0 tool to make module package creati ii prelink 0.0.20071009-1 ELF prelinking utility to speed up ii python 2.4.4-6 An interactive high-level object-o Versions of packages vmware-package recommends: ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.19-3 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.20.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.3-7 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libcairo2 1.4.10-1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libcairomm-1.0-1 1.4.2-1 C++ wrappers for Cairo (shared lib ii libcroco3 0.6.1-1 a generic Cascading Style Sheet (C ii libexpat1 1.95.8-4 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.3.5-1+b1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.2-1 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.14.2-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libglibmm-2.4-1c2a 2.14.1-0.1 C++ wrapper for the GLib toolkit ( ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.20.1-1 A powerful object-oriented display ii libgnomecanvasmm-2.6-1c 2.20.0-3 C++ wrappers for libgnomecanvas2 ( ii libgsf-1-114 1.14.7-1 Structured File Library - runtime ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.0-3 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a 1:2.10.10-0.2 C++ wrappers for GTK+ 2.4 (shared ii libpango1.0-0 1.18.3-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-3 PNG library - runtime ii librsvg2-2 2.18.2-1 SAX-based renderer library for SVG ii libsexy2 0.1.11-2 collection of additional GTK+ widg ii libsexymm2 0.1.9-2 collection of additional gtkmm wid ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.17-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libview2 0.6.1-1 VMware's Incredibly Exciting Widge ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library ii libxau6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 authorisation library ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.9-1 X cursor management library ii libxdmcp6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 Display Manager Control Protoc ii libxext6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxfixes3 1:4.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio ii libxft2 2.1.12-2 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxi6 2:1.1.3-1 X11 Input extension library ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.2-1 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxml2 2.6.30.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library ii libxrandr2 2:1.2.2-1 X11 RandR extension library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-1 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxtst6 2:1.0.3-1 X11 Testing -- Resource extension ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-6 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
