[gentoo-user] vmware workstation 5.0 upgrade

2005-08-12 Thread Grant 
Hello, I've purchased vmware workstation 4.5 and gentoo wants to
upgrade it to 5.0.  If I go ahead with that emerge will I be able to
use the upgraded product with my 4.5 license?

- Grant

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Re: [gentoo-user] vmware workstation 5.0 upgrade

2005-08-12 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux 
Grant wrote:
 Hello, I've purchased vmware workstation 4.5 and gentoo wants to
 upgrade it to 5.0.  If I go ahead with that emerge will I be able to
 use the upgraded product with my 4.5 license?
 
 - Grant
 

Don't know, if you can't use your licence with 5.0 mask it doing the
following:

echo =app-emulation/vmware-workstation-5  /etc/portage/package.mask

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Re: [gentoo-user] vmware workstation 5.0 upgrade

2005-08-12 Thread Neil Bothwick 
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 04:04:06 -0700, Grant wrote:

 Hello, I've purchased vmware workstation 4.5 and gentoo wants to
 upgrade it to 5.0.  If I go ahead with that emerge will I be able to
 use the upgraded product with my 4.5 license?

No, unless you are entitled to a free 4.x to 5.x upgrade, VMWare
sometimes do this when you buy the old version just before the new one is
released.

If not, you'll need to add app-emulation/vmware-workstation-5.0
to /etc/portage/package.mask to stop portage trying to upgrade.

5.0 is rather nice, and the upgrade fee from 4.5 is not that great.


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Re: [gentoo-user] vmware workstation 5.0 upgrade

2005-08-12 Thread Grant 
  Hello, I've purchased vmware workstation 4.5 and gentoo wants to
  upgrade it to 5.0.  If I go ahead with that emerge will I be able to
  use the upgraded product with my 4.5 license?
 
 No, unless you are entitled to a free 4.x to 5.x upgrade, VMWare
 sometimes do this when you buy the old version just before the new one is
 released.
 
 If not, you'll need to add app-emulation/vmware-workstation-5.0
 to /etc/portage/package.mask to stop portage trying to upgrade.
 
 5.0 is rather nice, and the upgrade fee from 4.5 is not that great.

Ok, masked.  Thanks.

- Grant

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