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# ChangeLog for app-emulation/vmware-workstation
# Copyright 2002-2005 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/app-emulation/vmware-workstation/ChangeLog,v 1.84 2005/04/11 21:51:41 wolf31o2 Exp $
11 Apr 2005; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
vmware-workstation-3.2.1.2242-r3.ebuild:
Fixing install problems and closing bug #82184.
11 Apr 2005; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
vmware-workstation-3.2.1.2242-r3.ebuild,
vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848-r6.ebuild,
vmware-workstation-5.0.0.13124.ebuild:
Updated to use vmware-any-any-update90 and resolving bug #88664.
*vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848-r6 (09 Apr 2005)
09 Apr 2005; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
+files/vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848-librarypath.patch,
-files/vmware-26kern-init-gentoo.patch,
-vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848-r5.ebuild,
+vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848-r6.ebuild:
Adding patch by Georgi Georgiev <chutz@gg3.net> to export more paths to
LD_LIBRARY_PATH when executing VMware and closing bug #59035.
08 Apr 2005; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848-r5.ebuild:
Restoring original perl.
08 Apr 2005; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org> -files/vmware.png:
Removing icon from files and closing bug #76662.
*vmware-workstation-5.0.0.13124 (08 Apr 2005)
08 Apr 2005; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848-r5.ebuild,
-vmware-workstation-5.0_rc3.ebuild, -vmware-workstation-5.0_rc4.ebuild,
+vmware-workstation-5.0.0.13124.ebuild:
Updated to VMware 5.0 final and made some minor cleanups to the vmware 4.5.2
ebuild. Closing bug #88352.
*vmware-workstation-5.0_rc4 (17 Mar 2005)
17 Mar 2005; Dylan Carlson <absinthe@gentoo.org>
-vmware-workstation-5.0_rc1.ebuild, -vmware-workstation-5.0_rc2.ebuild,
+vmware-workstation-5.0_rc4.ebuild:
Version bump. Apparently the build number of the latest release candidate
changed. Thanks to Dan Gilkerson for the heads up. Also removed expired
release candidates.
*vmware-workstation-5.0_rc3 (15 Mar 2005)
15 Mar 2005; Dylan Carlson <absinthe@gentoo.org>
+vmware-workstation-5.0_rc3.ebuild:
Version bump to latest release candidate.
19 Feb 2005; <solar@gentoo.org> vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848-r5.ebuild,
vmware-workstation-5.0_rc2.ebuild:
- update RDEPEND and make use of sys-libs/glibc vs virtual/libc
*vmware-workstation-5.0_rc2 (18 Feb 2005)
18 Feb 2005; Dylan Carlson <absinthe@gentoo.org>
-vmware-workstation-5.0_beta1.ebuild,
-vmware-workstation-5.0_beta2.ebuild, +vmware-workstation-5.0_rc2.ebuild:
Version bump.
*vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848-r5 (11 Feb 2005)
11 Feb 2005; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
-vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848-r4.ebuild,
+vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848-r5.ebuild:
Improved fix for bug #81344, which requires no external libraries.
*vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848-r4 (10 Feb 2005)
10 Feb 2005; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
-vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848-r3.ebuild,
+vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848-r4.ebuild:
Updated with a better solution for bug #81344, as the old one broke amd64
support.
*vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848-r3 (09 Feb 2005)
09 Feb 2005; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
-vmware-workstation-3.2.1.2242-r2.ebuild,
+vmware-workstation-3.2.1.2242-r3.ebuild,
-vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848-r2.ebuild,
+vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848-r3.ebuild:
General cleanup and closing bug #81344.
*vmware-workstation-5.0_rc1 (28 Jan 2005)
28 Jan 2005; Dylan Carlson <absinthe@gentoo.org>
+vmware-workstation-5.0_rc1.ebuild:
Version bump for beta testers.
*vmware-workstation-5.0_beta2 (16 Jan 2005)
16 Jan 2005; Dylan Carlson <absinthe@gentoo.org>
+vmware-workstation-5.0_beta2.ebuild:
Bump to close #77206.
11 Jan 2005; Sven Wegener <swegener@gentoo.org> :
Fixed digest.
11 Jan 2005; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
vmware-workstation-3.2.1.2242-r2.ebuild,
-vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848-r1.ebuild,
vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848-r2.ebuild:
Marking stable on x86 and amd64, updated to use latest vmware-any-any-update
version, and removed suid bits from non-essential binaries so it plays nice
with sfperms. Closing bug #59632.
05 Jan 2005; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org> metadata.xml:
Changed herd to new vmware herd.
26 Dec 2004; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org> metadata.xml:
Changing maintainer
23 Dec 2004; Mike Doty <kingtaco@gentoo.org>
vmware-workstation-5.0_beta1.ebuild:
bumped version to 11608 as thats the build available for download. moved
vmware.png from SRC_URI to FILESDIR because of fetch restrict. updated
appropriate doins lines
*vmware-workstation-5.0_beta1 (29 Nov 2004)
29 Nov 2004; Jason Huebel <jhuebel@gentoo.org>
+vmware-workstation-5.0_beta1.ebuild:
added VMware workstation 5.0 beta1 ebuild, p.masked since it's a closed beta
09 Nov 2004; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org> :
Fixed digests and closing bug #70611.
09 Nov 2004; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org> -files/vmware.png,
vmware-workstation-3.2.1.2242-r2.ebuild,
vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848-r1.ebuild,
vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848-r2.ebuild:
Moved icon file to mirrors to remove binary image file from files directory.
04 Nov 2004; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848-r2.ebuild:
Uncommenting suid problems and closing bug #70021.
*vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848-r2 (03 Nov 2004)
03 Nov 2004; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
+vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848-r2.ebuild:
Updated to patch 84 and closing bugs #58041, #64237, #64300, #59035, #66134,
#68030, #66673, and #54269.
03 Nov 2004; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org> :
Fixing bad digest.
03 Nov 2004; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
vmware-workstation-3.2.1.2242-r2.ebuild:
Updated to vmware-any-any-update84 and removing tcl from DEPEND. Closing bug
#62500.
12 Sep 2004; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
vmware-workstation-3.2.1.2242-r2.ebuild,
vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848-r1.ebuild:
Added SRC_URI entry to look into obsolete directory for patches. Thank
bonsaikitten.
11 Sep 2004; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
vmware-workstation-3.2.1.2242-r2.ebuild,
vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848-r1.ebuild:
Updated to vmware-any-any-update83.
10 Sep 2004; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
-vmware-workstation-3.2.1.2242-r1.ebuild,
vmware-workstation-3.2.1.2242-r2.ebuild,
vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848-r1.ebuild,
-vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848.ebuild:
Updated to use vmware-any-any82 and marking stable on supported platforms.
*vmware-workstation-3.2.1.2242-r2 (18 Aug 2004)
18 Aug 2004; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
+vmware-workstation-3.2.1.2242-r2.ebuild:
Updated to use vmware-any-any-update75 and closing bug #60777.
18 Aug 2004; Jeremy Huddleston <eradicator@gentoo.org>
vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848-r1.ebuild:
Added dies to update lines to catch problems easier. Comment out patch
of vmware executable as update75 does not patch that file.
11 Jul 2004; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848-r1.ebuild:
Fixing problem with patch.
*vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848-r1 (10 Jul 2004)
10 Jul 2004; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
-vmware-workstation-4.5.1.7568-r1.ebuild,
+vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848-r1.ebuild,
vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848.ebuild:
Removing 4.5.1 ebuilds, marking 4.5.2 stable on x86, and adding a -r1 ebuild
for 4.5.2 that adds amd64 support. Closing bug #53879.
02 Jul 2004; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org> :
Fixing digest files and closing bug #55785.
28 Jun 2004; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
vmware-workstation-4.5.1.7568-r1.ebuild,
vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848.ebuild:
Updated to latest vmware-any-any-update and closing bug #54918.
22 Jun 2004; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
vmware-workstation-4.5.1.7568-r1.ebuild,
vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848.ebuild:
Updated to newest vmware-any-any-update and closing bug #54777.
22 Jun 2004; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
vmware-workstation-3.2.1.2242-r1.ebuild,
vmware-workstation-4.5.1.7568-r1.ebuild,
vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848.ebuild:
Adding note about removing modules on uninstall and closing bug #54686.
15 Jun 2004; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
vmware-workstation-4.5.1.7568-r1.ebuild:
Modified to use vmware-any-any-update70 and closign bug #53928.
*vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848 (14 Jun 2004)
14 Jun 2004; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
+vmware-workstation-4.5.2.8848.ebuild:
Adding version 4.5.2 and closing bug #53831.
14 Jun 2004; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
vmware-workstation-4.5.1.7568-r1.ebuild,
-vmware-workstation-4.5.1.7568.ebuild:
Marking stable for x86 and removing older revision.
10 Jun 2004; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org> :
Fixing digest.
*vmware-workstation-4.5.1.7568-r1 (09 Jun 2004)
09 Jun 2004; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
+vmware-workstation-4.5.1.7568-r1.ebuild:
Updated with vmware-any-any-update and closing bug #53431.
30 May 2004; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
vmware-workstation-4.5.1.7568.ebuild:
QA cleanup
28 Apr 2004; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
vmware-workstation-4.5.1.7568.ebuild:
Adding more information in the comments about why amd64 is not a supported
platform and closing bug #49203.
20 Mar 2004; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
vmware-workstation-4.0.5.6030-r1.ebuild,
vmware-workstation-4.5.1.7568.ebuild:
Bumping 4.5.1 to stable on x86 as it fixes several issues with gentoo-sources
and also with 2.6 kernels. Closing bug #37774.
*vmware-workstation-4.5.1.7568 (18 Mar 2004)
18 Mar 2004; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
vmware-workstation-4.5.1.7568.ebuild:
Adding 4.5.1 version to ~x86 and closing bug #44626.
26 Feb 2004; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
vmware-workstation-4.0.5.6030.ebuild:
Removing extra version left during bump.
24 Feb 2004; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
vmware-workstation-3.2.1.2242-r1.ebuild:
Moved has_version to src_compile.
21 Feb 2004; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
vmware-workstation-4.0.2.5592-r1.ebuild:
Removing old 4.x version.
*vmware-workstation-4.0.5.6030-r1 (21 Feb 2004)
21 Feb 2004; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
vmware-workstation-4.0.5.6030-r1.ebuild,
vmware-workstation-4.0.5.6030.ebuild:
Updated 2.6 kernel support. Closing bug #42330.
15 Feb 2004; Donny Davies <woodchip@gentoo.org> files/vmware.rc:
Add 'use samba'; #36941.
10 Feb 2004; Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
vmware-workstation-4.0.5.6030.ebuild:
New version of the 2.6.x kernel support. Fixes compilation problems with 2.6.3.
31 Dec 2003; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
vmware-workstation-4.0.5.6030.ebuild:
Fixing digest problem and patch problem. Closing bug #36840.
31 Dec 2003; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
vmware-workstation-4.0.5.6030.ebuild:
Fixed wrong patch filename and made 2.6 updates force on 2.6 kernels.
30 Dec 2003; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
vmware-workstation-4.0.5.6030.ebuild, files/vmware-26kern-init-gentoo.patch:
Fixed misc 2.6 problems. Bumping to stable on x86. Closing Bug #36116 and Bug
#36107.
04 Dec 2003; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
vmware-workstation-4.0.5.6030.ebuild:
Closing bug #34971
*vmware-workstation-4.0.5.6030 (11 Oct 2003)
11 Oct 2003; Martin Holzer <mholzer@gentoo.org>
vmware-workstation-4.0.5.6030.ebuild:
Version bumped.
*vmware-workstation-4.0.2.5592-r1 (24 Sep 2003)
24 Sep 2003; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> :
New version of the 2.6.x kernel support.
*vmware-workstation-3.2.1.2242-r1 (24 Sep 2003)
24 Sep 2003; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> :
New version of the 2.6.x kernel support.
06 Sep 2003; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
files/3.2.1.2237/90vmware, files/3.2.1.2237/VMwareWorkstation.desktop,
files/3.2.1.2237/vmware,
files/3.2.1.2237/vmware-config.pl-gcc-generalized.patch,
files/3.2.1.2237/vmware-glibc-2.3.2-compat.c, files/3.2.1.2237/vmware.png:
Completing removal of old versions.
06 Sep 2003; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org> metadata.xml,
vmware-workstation-3.2.1.2237-r1.ebuild,
vmware-workstation-3.2.1.2237.ebuild,
vmware-workstation-4.0.0.4460-r1.ebuild,
vmware-workstation-4.0.1.5289.ebuild, files/VMwareWorkstation.desktop,
files/3.2.1.2242/VMwareWorkstation.desktop, files/3.2.1.2242/vmware.png:
Removed older unsecure versions in 3.x and 4.x series.
*vmware-workstation-4.0.2.5592 (30 Aug 2003)
30 Aug 2003; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
vmware-workstation-3.2.1.2237-r1.ebuild,
vmware-workstation-3.2.1.2237.ebuild, vmware-workstation-3.2.1.2242.ebuild,
vmware-workstation-4.0.0.4460-r1.ebuild,
vmware-workstation-4.0.1.5289.ebuild, vmware-workstation-4.0.2.5592.ebuild,
files/vmware-4.0.0.4460.rc, files/vmware-4.0.1.5289.rc, files/vmware.rc:
Added menu entries for all versions. Fixed init script for 4.x series. Added
latest version to fix security flaw and close a security hole.
*vmware-workstation-3.2.1.2242 (20 Aug 2003)
20 Aug 2003; Daniel Ahlberg <aliz@gentoo.org> vmware-workstation-3.2.1.2242.ebuild:
Security update
*vmware-workstation-4.0.1.5289 (30 Jul 2003)
30 Jul 2003; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> :
Version bump.
*vmware-workstation-4.0.0.4460-r1 (25 Jul 2003)
25 Jul 2003; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> :
Add 2.5/2.6 kernel support.
*vmware-workstation-4.0.4460 (10 Apr 2003)
10 Apr 2003; Preston A. Elder <prez@gentoo.org>
vmware-workstation-4.0.4460.ebuild, files/digest-vmware-workstation-4.0.4460,
files/4.0.4460/* :
Version bump. This is the release version.
*vmware-workstation-4.0.4320 (22 Mar 2003)
22 Mar 2003; Philip Walls <malverian@gentoo.org>
vmware-workstation-4.0.4320.ebuild, files/digest-vmware-workstation-4.0.4320,
files/4.0.4320/* :
Version bump. Added symlinks to /usr/bin, made vmware-vmx SUID,
Added init scripts and desktop icons for this version (non-existant in
4121). Added pciutils to DEPEND as required to run vmware-config.pl
Added RDEPEND=${DEPEND} according to policy.
*vmware-workstation-4.0.4121 (11 Mar 2003)
11 Mar 2003; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> :
Version bump for people who want to use the beta.
*vmware-workstation-3.2.1.2237-r1 (25 Jul 2003)
25 Jul 2003; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> :
Version bump to try to add glibc-2.3.2 support #16444 + 2.5/2.6 kern support.
*vmware-workstation-3.2.1.2237 (17 Jul 2003)
17 Jul 2003; Arcady Genkin <agenkin@gentoo.org> :
Version bump to the latest version of 3.2.
*vmware-workstation-3.2.0.2230-r1 (16 Dec 2002)
09 Jan 2003; Martin Holzer <mholzer@gentoo.org :
Changed DEPEND ~tcl to >=tcl. Closes #13543.
16 Dec 2002; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> :
Added a patch to vmware-config.pl so that all versions of gcc are handled properly.
*vmware-workstation-3.2.0.2230 (16 Sep 2002)
06 Dec 2002; Rodney Rees <manson@gentoo.org> :
changed sparc ~sparc keywords
17 Oct 2002; Daniel Ahlberg <aliz@gentoo.org> vmware-workstation-3.2.0.2230.ebuild :
Added IUSE.
16 Sep 2002; Preston A. Elder <prez@gentoo.org> :
Added VMware 3.2.0 (2230), a direct copy of 3.1.1 (1790).
*vmware-workstation-3.1.1.1790 (13 Apr 2002)
17 Oct 2002; Daniel Ahlberg <aliz@gentoo.org> vmware-workstation-3.1.1.1790.ebuild :
Added IUSE.
31 Aug 2002; Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org> ChangeLog :
Fix part of bug #5359: remove deprecated KDE2DIR, KDE3DIR variables and
install into /usr
06 Aug 2002; Mark Guertin <gerk@gentoo.org> :
Added -ppc -sparc -sparc64 to keywords
13 Apr 2002; William McArthur <sandymac@gentoo.org> /etc/init.d/vmare:
Rewrote the /etc/init.d/vmare script to not mangle error messages that aren't
in an expected format. Added ~dev-lang/tcl-8.3.3 to the DEPEND line.
11 Apr 2002; William McArthur <sandymac@gentoo.org> vmware-workstation-3.1.1.1790.ebuild:
New version of VMware Workstation released. The ebuild was updated for this
version. The Gentoo (/etc/init.d/vmware) init script was changed to capture
the output from the VMware (/etc/vmware/init.d/vmware) script and prettify
(Is that a word?) it's output to look more like the Gentoo boot output. Also,
any error lines from the vmware init script are sent to the system logger to
hopefully increase their chance of being noticed. I made an icon from the
logo off of vmware.com for use in "start" type menus. It can be found in
/opt/vmware/lib/icon/ . If kde is in the USE var then menu items are
automatically added for the user.
*vmware-workstation-3.0.0.1455-r1 (20 Feb 2002)
20 Feb 2002; William McArthur <sandymac@gentoo.org> vmware-workstation-3.0.0.1455-r1.ebuild :
If you had an existing vmware install there was a problem where the file
/etc/vmware/not_configured would have a mtime different from what was in the
locations file. This is fixed by not having a mtime in the locations file for
the not_configured file.
At the end of the merge the new locations file is appended to the existing
locations. This plus the above should solve any problems that people with
manual vmware installs have.
If the user was to merge vmware twice without running vmware-config.pl the
rc#.d dirs in /etc/vmware/init.d/ would be remove despite config protection.
To keep them around I added .keep files in each of them.
*vmware-workstation-3.0.0.1455 (10 Feb 2002)
10 Feb 2002; William McArthur <sandymac@gentoo.org> vmware-workstation-3.0.0.1455.ebuild :
I don't remember the details but the following was written:
The ebuild bypassed the official install because it doesn't all a install
prefix. Basicly the files from the work dir are copyied to the image dir.
DEBUG=true is set because the strip command line tool dumps core on the
vmware executable and setting DEBUG will disable it.
After the files have had their mtime updated we scan the image dir and collect
the mtimes and add the info to the /etc/vmware/locations file. This file is
used by vmware to track config choices and it is used in upgrading. By
creating this file we make sure the vmware config tools work and I think you
could do a non gentoo package install of vmware and it would work.
The vmware-config tool insists on a set of init dirs named rc#.d so they are
created in /etc/vmware/init.d/ . The other option was edit vmware-config.pl .
VMWare needs some modules loaded so at boot an init script is run that is
really just glue to start the init script supplied from vmware which is at
/etc/vmware/init.d/vmware
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