Re: [gentoo-user] Where has vmware-config.pl gone?

[Iain Buchanan]

On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 18:15 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au> wrote:
> >
> >   The emerge log mentioned `emerge
> > --config vmware-workstation` which output this:

[snip]

> > But vmware still complains about vmware-config.pl
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> I think emerge --config is the "gentoo way".
>
> It runs /opt/vmware/workstation/bin/vmware-networks
>
> Here's the snippet from the ebuild:
>
> pkg_config() {
>         ${VM_INSTALL_DIR}/bin/vmware-networks --postinstall ${PN},old,new
> }
>

It doesn't seem to do what vmware-config used to do, and if it was a
replacement for vmware-config, why would VMWware still reference
vmware-config.pl?

Any ideas on using vmware-networks to reconfigure my, er, vmware
networks? It doesn't seem prompt-driven like vmware-config used to be
either... (Yes I've looked at the --help option).

thanks,
-- 
Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

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