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Bug #836277: open-vm-dkms doesn't detect vmxnet and vsock properly during install

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26. By Nate Muench (Mink) on 2012-07-02

Backport 03-dkms.patch from Precise to correct typing error
in /modules/linux/dkms.conf (LP: #836277)

25. By Nate Muench (Mink) on 2011-07-22

* Merge latest upstream git tag. Fixes Building on Oneiric
  (LP: #776103, LP: #807903)

* The Toolbox (GUI) has been removed.
* Changes in debian folder:
  - Contents of open-vm-toolbox.lintian-overrides have been moved to
    open-vm-tools.lintian-overrides.
  - The contents of open-vm-toolbox.manpages (excluding the first line,
    which relates to the Toolbox) have been moved to open-vm-tools.manpages.
* Changes in debian/control:
  - Convert open-vm-toolbox into a transitional package.
  - All dependencies for toolbox have been moved to open-vm-tools package.
  - Changed architecture for open-vm-toolbox package to all.
  - Added Replaces and Breaks fields to open-vm-tools.
* Changes in debian/rules:
  - Commented out references to the Toolbox (GUI), that no longer exist
    in the package itself.
  - Remaining references changed from open-vm-toolbox to open-vm-tools.
  - Added -Wno-unused-but-set-variable to CFLAGS to suppress remaining
    issues with GCC 4.6.0 or later.
* Files removed in debian/manpages:
  - vmmemctl.9 (Component no longer in package)
  - vmware-toolbox.1 (Component removed in this release)
  - vmxnet3.9 (vmxnet3 is now included in kernel itself)

24. By Christian Titze on 2011-07-08

Updated /debian/manpages/vmhgfs.9: Typo fixed and further information
was added (LP: #572335)

23. By Evan Broder on 2011-05-07

Revert debian/rules change in 2011.03.28-387002-0ubuntu2 and instead
remove debian/open-vm-toolbox.links, which was shadowing the original
/etc/xdg/autostart/vmware-user.desktop file.

22. By Serge Hallyn on 2011-04-29

debian/rules: copy the vmware-user.desktop into place. (LP: #772837)

21. By Serge Hallyn on 2011-03-31

* Merge latest upstream git tag. This has the unlocked_ioctl change
  needed to fix dkms build failures (LP: #727342)
* Changes in debian/rules:
  - work around a bug in toolbox/Makefile, where install-exec-hook is
    not happening. This needs to get fixed the right way.
  - don't install 'vmware-user' which seems to no longer exist
  - move /etc/xdg into open-vm-toolbox (which should be done using .install)
* debian/open-vm-tools.init: add 'modprobe [-r] vmblock'. (LP: #332323)
* debian/rules and debian/open-vm-toolbox.lintian-overrides:
  - Make vmware-user-suid-wrapper suid-root (LP: #332323)

20. By Nate Muench (Mink) on 2010-09-06

* Merge from Debian testing (LP: #632101), remaining changes:
  - Recommend open-vm-toolbox in open-vm-tools.
  - Rediffing vsock.patch.

19. By Stefano Rivera on 2010-07-24

Add 03-vmxnet.patch and 04-vsock.patch.
Fixes building on Maverick kernels (LP: #598542)

18. By Evan Broder <evan@mingo> on 2010-05-29

* Merge from debian testing, remaining changes:
    - Recommend open-vm-toolbox in open-vm-tools.
* Dropping la files.
* Updating rules for pvscsi removal (Closes: #581160).
* Merging upstream version 2010.04.25-253928.
* Updating packaging for upstreams pvscsi module removal.
* Removing remote_fs from initscript again (Closes: #577163).
* Updating lintian overrides for open-vm-tools.
* Updating date and version in manpage headers.
* Adding manpage for vmxnet3.
* Adding manpage for vmci.
* Fixing spelling typo in vmsync manpage.
* Adding manpage for vmsock.
* Update formating of newly added manpages.
* Adding vmware-toolbox-cmd manpage.
* Adding guestlib manpage.
* Adding libvmtools manpage.
* Renaming guestlib manpage to libguestlib.
* Including vmware-toolbox-cmd manpage in open-vm-tools package.
* Updating initscript start/stop declarations (Closes: #576843,
  #577163).
* Adding misc depends.
* Running open-vm-dkms postinst script with set -e.
* Adding remote_fs to init depends.
* Avoid including license files in open-vm-dkms.
* Marking makefiles in open-vm-dkms executable to please lintian.
* Adding make to open-vm-dkms depends.
* Also stopping in runlevel 1.
* Addding dkms support based on the work of Evan Broder
  <email address hidden> on the ubuntu package (Closes: #516251).
* Simplyfing initramfs triggers (Closes: #516355).
* Merging upstream version 2010.03.20-243334.
* Moving local Makefile to subdirectory.
* Adding build-depends to libfuse-dev.

17. By Evan Broder on 2010-03-22

* Merge from Debian testing (LP: #543888), remaining changes:
  - Recommend open-vm-toolbox in open-vm-tools.
  - Add support for dkms.
* Fixes building on Lucid kernels (LP: #498677).
* Updating to standards 3.8.4.
* Merging upstream version 2010.02.23-236320.
* Updating year in copyright file.
* Merging upstream version 2010.01.19-226760.
* Correcting plugins handling (Closes: #564069).
* Updating packaging for upstreams vmxnet3 module removal.
* Updating packaging for upstreams test plugin removal.
* Adding explicit debian source version 1.0 until switch to 3.0.
* Merging upstream version 2009.12.16-217847.
* Rediffing kvers.patch.
* Rediffing procps.patch.