I’ve spent the last week packaging VMware Workstation 7.0.0 at work. Looking around on the net, I’ve been unable to find anything helpful about packaging this new version, so it seems nobody’s got around to packaging it yet.
I’ve asked our customer for its approval for releasing our packaging scripts to the community and got it, so here are our packaging scripts for this version, courtesy of EDF. See the instructions in debian/README.source for what has to be done to turn it into a full source package.
The packaging is based on our previous 6.5.2 packaging, which was itself based (partially, at least) upon the Gento 6.5.2 ebuild. It uses a tweaked vmware-installer to install the products to debian/tmp, then makes use of the vmware-installer database to populate the packages.
I think this method should work with any VMware product using vmware-installer 1.1.
Packages have been built and tested on Etch and Lenny.
Hope it helps! Bugs, comments, questions to the email address listed as Maintainer in debian/control, please :-)
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