rfc1459/open-vm-tools

Portage overlay for open-vm-tools

open-vm-tools overlay

This Portage overlay is a fork of the fol4 overlay containing only up-to-date ebuilds for open-vm-tools.

Installation

Save the following file as /etc/layman/overlays/open-vm-tools.xml:

<repositories version="1.0">
  <repo quality="experimental" status="unofficial">
    <name>open-vm-tools</name>
    <description lang="en">Unofficial ebuilds for open-vm-tools</description>
    <homepage>https://github.com/rfc1459/open-vm-tools</homepage>
    <owner type="person">
      <email>morpheus@level28.org</email>
      <name>Matteo Panella</name>
    </owner>
    <source type="git">git://github.com/rfc1459/open-vm-tools.git</source>
  </repo>
</repositories>

Unfortunately, the ebuilds in Portage have a higher version number due to the use of snapshot dates as ebuild versions, so you need to add the following to your package mask list:

# Prevent portage from pulling outdated open-vm-tools versions
app-emulation/open-vm-tools::gentoo
app-emulation/open-vm-tools-kmod::gentoo

Then use layman to activate the repository.

Notes

I urge you to hard-mask */*::open-vm-tools and unmask single packages as-needed. I plan to keep only packages related to open-vm-tools here, but hard-masking overlays is currently considered best practice (that is, unless you're the overlay owner).