[Bug 1269985] Re: Revert package back to Devel release

Dmitry Torokhov dmitry.torokhov at gmail.com
Wed Jan 22 20:40:02 UTC 2014


Nate,

The other distributions are fine with using stable releases recommended
by us as they see it as the least risky options, especially since these
are versions that we intend to support. RHEL and Fedora actually have
policy against using out of tree drivers, so their requirement was to
compile open-vm-tools without kernel drivers and for kernel drivers to
come from mainline kernel. Same with Suse.

I understand you might want to follow bleeding edge kernels more
closely, but I do not think that it is good idea to package such efforts
for general consumption and include them in main images installed by
everyone. Monthly releases were really just development snapshots. At a
given time we'd take top of the internal tree and release it. It could
be fine and it could be broken and could eat your filesystem - we would
not know because monthly snapshots do not go through full QA cycle.

Regarding network drivers - e1000 is the default network device for new
VMs an has been for a few years now; you can find pcnet32/vmxnet in very
old VMs that are unlikely to get upgraded to newer releases (they'd be
using 2.2 kernels I think).

Thanks,
Dmitry

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