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Compilation of vmware modules

Create build-environment

Install debootstrap and schroot:

apt-get install debootstrap schroot

You need one environment per arch. With i386 and amd64 you cover almost everything:

debootstrap --arch=i386 karmic /opt/ubuntu/karmic-i386 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
debootstrap --arch=amd64 karmic /opt/ubuntu/karmic-amd64 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu

Edit /etc/schroot/schroot.conf and add to the bottom:

[karmic-amd64]
description=Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala amd64
users=dick
root-users=dick
location=/opt/tmp/ubuntus/karmic
type=directory
run-setup-scripts=true
run-exec-scripts=true

[karmic-i386]
description=Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala i386
users=dick
root-users=dick
location=/opt/tmp/ubuntus/karmic-i386
type=directory
run-setup-scripts=true
run-exec-scripts=true

Configure build environment

Go into each of them and first modify /etc/apt/sources.list to have the proper lines:

#
deb http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-updates main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu karmic-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu karmic-security main restricted universe multiverse

Install the package that will pull down all requires debs (>100 MB):

apt-get install open-vm-tools linux-source apt-show-versions vim module-assistant

Build packages

Inside each chroot, run the script build.vmwaremodules.sh. This will yield a deb file for each arch, flavor and version.
This can quickly add up to a lot of debs, because you will have (archs x flavors x versions) debs.
For instance:

( (i386 + amd64) + (generic + server) + (14 + 15 + 18 + 20) ) = 2 x 2 4 = 16 debs.

Upload packages

Upload the debs to outkast.tienhuis.nl.
The i386 ones go to /pub/www/www.tienhuis.nl/ubuntu/dists/karmic/restricted/binary-i386, the amd64 ones go to /pub/www/www.tienhuis.nl/ubuntu/dists/karmic/restricted/binary-amd64.

Then cd to /home/dick/scripts/apt-repos and run the script gen_repos.sh. This will update the repository

Client configuration

After installing a karmic host, configure it to use the repository by creating a file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tienhuis.list with this content:

deb http://www.tienhuis.nl/ubuntu karmic main universe multiverse restricted

Now add the GPG key so that the repository is trusted:

wget http://www.tienhuis.nl/ubuntu/gpg.key.asc -O - | apt-key add -

Now you can install the vmware modules:

apt-get install open-vm-modules-`uname -r`

TODO: try exactly these steps

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