On Thursday, March 14, 2013 04:25:21 PM Brian Reichert wrote: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 10:01:55PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > The NEWS file of open-vm-tools spans back to 2007.09.04. > > > RHEL5 was released six months prior, in 2007.3.14. > > > > which is a long time ago > > > > > Are you saying that in the last _five years_ no one's successfully > > > built any version of open-vm-rools for RHEL5? > > > > who knows and who cares since VMware Inc. ships binaries > > within ESXi and in public repos? > > Well, I've not heard further on this topic. > > A summary, for the benefit of the email archives: > > - RHEL5 was released on 2007, and the EOL according to RedHat is > now 2017; a proposed lifespan of ten years. > > - There has been no version of open-vm-rools has even been built for > RHEL5, (and by extension, CentOS) and there's no interest on the > part of this project to do so. > > - The RPM packages associated with the commercial release cannot be > redistributed. (There are only two I'm interested in, but none > of them are available for our use.) > > So, I'm SOL, it seems.
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