[oe] [meta-oe][PATCH 00/14] new recipe: open-vm-tools recipe

[Martin Kelly]

On Fri, 2017-06-16 at 21:53 +0000, Darren Hart wrote:
> On 06/09/2017 03:22 PM, Martin Kelly wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > This patch series adds a new recipe for Open VM Tools to meta-oe.
> > This recipe is invaluable for using Openembedded with VMWare, as
> > without the tools, performance is very slow.
> > More information about Open VM Tools can be found here:
> > 
> > 
> > https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Please note that, as mentioned in the first commit, this recipe is
> > modified from the recipe originally found in the Open-Switch
> > repository. The first patch is directly from that repository, and
> > the following patches are modifications to it.
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Please forgive me if this doesn’t land on the mailing list quite
> right. I am no longer subscribed to this list and replying from web
> archives can be hit and miss.
> 
> I wanted to reach out and say it’s great to see this recipe being
> submitted to meta-oe, and nice work updating the recipe meta-data.
> 
> If there is something we can do to help make this easier to maintain,
> support, etc, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me. I noticed,
> for example, there are a few patches to deal with deprecated library
> calls and the OE build environment.
> 

Thanks, will do. There's a few patches that should probably go upstream
if they're not already present in some other form.

> Finally… as the author of send-pull-request, I have to confess a
> twinge of guilt when it failed you Martin. If you want to send me
> details on how you ran it and the details of the failure, I’d be
> happy to look into it.
> 
> One possibility is that your local branch didn’t match the remote
> branch. Another possibility is that it isn’t parsing the GitHub
> repository location correctly, and that may need updating.
> 

Thanks; as you may have seen, I need to make a few changes due to
issues that Martin Jansa found. I will try send-pull-request again and
send you details about any issues I hit.

> Thanks,
> 
> --
> Darren Hart
> Director / Open Source Architect
> VMware Open Source Technology Center
>