VMWare server for Ubuntu available since this morning

[Fabian Rodriguez]

> On 4/27/07, Fabian Rodriguez <magicfab at ubuntu.com> wrote:
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>> Hi everyone,
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>> Just a quick note to let all know that VMWare server was uploaded this
>> morning

> Hi Fabian,
>
> First thanks for the upload it's greatly appreciated.

I was just announcing it, but I guess I have some credit as Etienne's
colleague and moral support :)

> At least now I
> have a template to learn how to package a "kernel module dependant"
> software. You blog also seems broken this morning by an invalid MySQL
> query.

My wordpress update went OK but I had forgotten about the database :) It's
mostly fixed now, but thanks!

> However, the real point of this e-mail was to know if there were any
> plans to backport it to dapper-commercial ? It's not listed in
> package.gz for dapper-commercial.

The vmware packages are really produced by VMWare themselves, so you would
have to ask them directly, although I can certainly find out. However, the
more people ask VMWare directly about this and make it clear they want to
use VMWare's products with older supported Ubuntu versions, the better.

Commercial packaging as a service provided by Canonical includes doing the
actual packaging, or verifying a customer's packages and upload them to
*-commercial, but other decisions are not really part of that.

Cheers,

Fabian