[Vmware-package-maintainers] Bug#433882: vmware-package: Documentation for quirks under AMD64 arch

[James Healy]

Package: vmware-package
Version: 0.9
Severity: wishlist


Sorry for all these bugs with no patches, python isn't my forte :)

We've been attempting to use make-vmpkg on an AMD64 system, and obviously
the VMWare binaries are 32-bit. We know it's possible to get it running
regardless if we install manually, but it would be useful to see a
section of /usr/share/doc/vmware-package/README.Debian that discusses
any potential issues when using make-vmpkg under AMD64.

First up - is it even possible at this stage? At the very least I'm
asuming the generated packages will need a dependency on ia32-libs?


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-jh (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages vmware-package depends on:
ii  bzip2                         1.0.3-7    high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  debhelper                     5.0.53     helper programs for debian/rules
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.14.5     package building tools for Debian
ii  fakeroot                      1.7.1      Gives a fake root environment
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.0.3-7  X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6                      1:1.0.3-2  X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxi6                        2:1.1.1-1  X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1                  1:1.0.2-1  X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  make                          3.81-3     The GNU version of the "make" util
ii  module-assistant              0.10.11    tool to make module package creati
ii  python                        2.4.4-6    An interactive high-level object-o

vmware-package recommends no packages.

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