EFW Support

Hi,

I've built a VMware appliance from EFW2.2RC3 because I find the EFW-COMMUNITY-2.2-rc3-devel-rpms.tar.gz package.
I want to create a new one from EFW2.3, but devel package not available. :(

How can I give this package?

Thanks,

Peter

you can find source at http://sourceforge.net/projects/efw/files/

Dear mudfly,

The source packages are very different than the development packages!
Development packages are NEED to rebuild any source package. So, the source packages aren't need to me, they are already downloaded by me, but nothing to do to build some of them.
No make, no g++, no cpp, no gcc, stc.
So, I need the devel packages (Example: the devel packages are present for EFW2.2RC3, but its usable only for 2.2RC3, no for 2.3).

Cheers,
PtY

Devel packages for 2.2 actually works with 2.3. Many rpm's can be installed, others fail cause glibc having a newer version.

On those cases you can just extract all the files from rpm and copy out to the needed files.
To extract files from rpm:
rpm2cpio myrpmfile.rpm | cpio -idmv
 It usually gives you a dir tree, just move the files where they must go.

The main problem is that kernel source is a bit different. 2.3 kernel is: 2.6.22.19-72.e18, 2.2 was 2.6.22.19-72.endian15.
On SRPMS package I saw the src for kernel 72.e18, I installed the rpm without problems, but I can't see the source anywhere. Meanwhile I used the kernel from 2.2, by redoing some symbolic links to make kernel reachable.

I was able to compile a realtek kernel and vmware-tools. Unfortunately vmware-tools are not working, they compiled perfectly, but they aren't detected and vmxnet isn't working. Must be the kernel difference or a vmware-tools problem (I'll try with open-vm-tools). My Realtek driver works fantastic for me.
As I don't know when they will be releasing the devel RPMS, I'm happy with being able to at least compile.