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open-vm-tools package

Split out new extensions as separate, optional binary packages

Bug #1963831 reported by John Wolfe
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open-vm-tools (Ubuntu)
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Bryce Harrington
Ubuntu ubuntu-22.06

Bug Description

Open-vm-tools 12.0.0 was released on Mar. 4, 2022.

The VMware Tools 12.0.0 was officially released on Mar. 1, 2022.

This release contains two new, optional features
  - Support for managing Salt Minion.
  - port for gathering and publishing a list of containers running inside Linux guests.

and several fixes including:
  - build with either libfuse2 or libfuse3.

It contains a known problem - a potential Fail to Build from Source [FTBFS] and a pointer to an available fix from the "devel" branch at https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/.

For complete details, see: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/stable-12.0.0

Release Notes are available at: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.0.0/ReleaseNotes.md

The granular changes that have gone into the 12.0.0 release are in the ChangeLog at https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.0.0/open-vm-tools/ChangeLog.

Please rebase open-vm-tools to release 12.0.0 on supported Ubuntu releases as appropriate.

Tags: needs-merge
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Lucas Kanashiro (lucaskanashiro) wrote :

Thanks for letting us know John. I am subscribing ubuntu-server so we can take a look at this update.

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Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer) wrote :

Hi John,
as discussed before due to some delays in upstream release timing this will no more make Ubuntu 22.04 immediately.

We'll stay on 11.3.5 for now.

But since we regularly backport open-vm-tools we will - in the 22.10 cycle - merge version 12.0.0 (or later) and then backport these to 22.04.

tags: added: needs-merge
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Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer) wrote :

FYI - usually we work together with Bzed to prepare and upload it to Debian right away then auto-syncing it to Ubuntu.

Changed in open-vm-tools (Ubuntu):
milestone: none → later
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Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer) wrote :

There are no 22.10-x milestones yet, setting it to later for now

Bryce Harrington (bryce)
Changed in open-vm-tools (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Bryce Harrington (bryce)
Bryce Harrington (bryce)
Changed in open-vm-tools (Ubuntu):
milestone: later → ubuntu-22.05
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Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer) wrote :

I talked with John before and for some new plugins we came to the conclusion:
John: "​This should be packaged as a separate, optional package like the open-vm-tools-sdmp package is today."

For dependency and footprint management we should also split
 - open-vm-tools-containerinfo
 - open-vm-tools-salt-minion (not even sure if that is already built)

Those are new extensions we should only suggest (sdmp isn't even a suggest actually) IMHO as they are not super-stable yet and if depended stronger.

This didn't fit into jammy anymore as its upstream release was delayed.
Now that 12.0.5 is out (bug 1975721) maybe worth to have a look.

Also May is over, setting 22.06

Changed in open-vm-tools (Ubuntu):
milestone: ubuntu-22.05 → ubuntu-22.06
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Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer) wrote :

It seems containerinfo only had the odd golang dependencies at build time.

I can't spot anything in universe in the final runtime from
  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/open-vm-tools/plugins/vmsvc/libcontainerInfo.so

Also the new componentMgr is fine
  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/open-vm-tools/plugins/vmsvc/libcomponentMgr.so

So maybe (for simplicity) we can keep it as Debian has it.
My check wasn't super thorough - so double check after merge of 12.0.5.

I can't see anything in regard to SaltStack yet.
Not a single word of "salt" in [1].
I might need to ping John again about this.

But from here the path looks like;:
- prep 12.0.5 for Debian
- sync 12.0.5 to Kinetic

Bryce: I can help you reviewing and with the Debian upload - ping me (or Bernd who reads these bugs as well usually).

[1]: https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=open-vm-tools&arch=amd64&ver=2%3A12.0.0-2%2Bb1&stamp=1652665112&raw=1

Bryce Harrington (bryce)
summary: - Open-vm-tools 12.0.0 has been released
+ Split out new extensions as separate, optional binary packages
Changed in open-vm-tools (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

This is implemented in the latest version sync'd from Debian

Changed in open-vm-tools (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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