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From: Garrett Cooper In-Reply-To: <54A44928.4050701@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 11:26:05 -0800 Message-Id: References: <13C55A7B-4010-40FA-901B-DF8ED6BADD87@freebsd.org> <20141231042455.GB53230@hub.FreeBSD.org> <24520431-8E2A-4D70-BD2D-D8D76A98C762@freebsd.org> <20141231151723.GA75959@hub.FreeBSD.org> <20141231175658.GD75959@hub.FreeBSD.org> <35F27CF1-A230-49AC-B077-2C7621C47D85@gmail.com> <54A44705.6000005@freebsd.org> <60DD8B3D-B499-4F0D-8AD4-AF85F902489A@gmail.com> <54A44928.4050701@freebsd.org> To: Alfred Perlstein X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Cc: Adrian Chadd , FreeBSD Release Engineering Team , Benno Rice , Ryan Kois , Claudia Yadathi , Glen Barber , "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" , Will Andrews X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 19:26:07 -0000 --Apple-Mail=_F56D98BE-228D-45FD-84F9-65B6E4BA0B0F Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 On Dec 31, 2014, at 11:06, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > On 12/31/14 11:03 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> On Dec 31, 2014, at 10:57, Alfred Perlstein = wrote: >>=20 >>> On 12/31/14 10:40 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote: >>>> On Dec 31, 2014, at 10:12, Adrian Chadd wrote: >>>>=20 >>>>> I'm confused by this discussion. >>>>>=20 >>>>> The basic image generation doesn't need to use any third-party = tools. >>>>>=20 >>>>> We can always have a transformation step /after/ those images are >>>>> generated that uses third party tools to generate other images. = Much >>>>> like Alfred's shell script. >>>>>=20 >>>>> I know it sucks, but unless someone wants to write BSD versions of = all >>>>> of those configuration pieces, we're going to be stuck using = external >>>>> tools to do things. And those things will get eyeballs. >>>>=20 >>>> It=92s really unfortunate that the VMware option requires linux = compat (at least) in order to work: >>>>=20 >>>> = https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?productId=3D352&downloadGroup=3DO= VFTOOL350 >>>>=20 >>>> Is there anyone who=92s been working with VMware directly to add = FreeBSD support? If so, I think that opensourcing this tool (or at least = having a binary) would potentially be the best win of all in the = short-term. >>>>=20 >>>> Thanks! >>>>=20 >>>=20 >>> = https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?productId=3D353&downloadGroup=3DO= VFTOOL350_OSS >>=20 >> That works too! Now all we need to do is make that into a port... >>=20 >=20 > Actually we need to figure out how that file is actually the = google-url library instead.... wat... >=20 > ~/tmp % tar xzvf ../ovftools-3.0.1-and-3.5.0-OSS.tar.gz > x google-url-r147/ > x google-url-r147/LICENSE.txt > x google-url-r147/third_party/ > x google-url-r147/third_party/icu/ > x google-url-r147/third_party/icu/build/ > x google-url-r147/third_party/icu/build/using_icu.vsprops > x google-url-r147/README.txt > x google-url-r147/src/ > x google-url-r147/src/url_parse_file.cc > ... >=20 > I'll ping some folks over there and see what's up. Probably VMware disclosing their modifications to source code as well as = what they statically compile into the tool *shrugs*. If I need to I=92ll try some internal channels; it=92s just a few hops = to get to the VMware folks for folks on Benno=92s team because we don=92t = work in the same geographical area as the folks do in SC. Thanks! --Apple-Mail=_F56D98BE-228D-45FD-84F9-65B6E4BA0B0F Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - https://gpgtools.org iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJUpE3NAAoJEMZr5QU6S73emu8H/Rx/1yaFpQbvY01dGaRa84Up z/chVIxrGmrtIabHWEcSZeMa+Lryc8wH077guYjxFk1q2tMyqHx+ur2mTuIeEGQo r5b4Prma4zc4/zxBdlv8lEXEs32Ema4FPckxll7gqxjWzoO4IkYJ21OVEX0l90mH oodcTufUP4E6zUvMxbKbtpaEm6w9mgPRjjcTWov5E8fIZnqIEqqy3NxAkdSg7n16 9H44GaWtiJiTZJ+jKZlgYMj3vmsOBFXFk8RG0OnUJjPKpr45UtqLqkQjCThJtzvm V/V7vuOFM2rdPhyGFub++AHIEsMe/NlNaCzLDl9+v4wW0WsauaQgH+t/evlzpw4= =tavd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_F56D98BE-228D-45FD-84F9-65B6E4BA0B0F--