[Vmware-package-maintainers] Bug#444400: vmware-package: examples needed in a manual and interoperation with module-assistant

[Marius Mikucionis]

Package: vmware-package
Version: 0.15
Severity: wishlist

Thanks for the nice packaging tool. 
I am amased about the modularity and many features supporting many VMware products,
but it was a quite cumbersome for the first time building vmware-server:
1) in order to get it working one needs several packages from various archives:
vmware-server, vmware-server-blobs, vmware-server-console and vmware-server-kernel-modules.
This is not abvious, hard to remember and is not documented anywhere. 
Moreover the sequence of downloading, building and installing various packages is important
(i.e. one cannot install vmware-server without installing vmware-server-kernel-modules 
which cannot be built if vmware-server-kernel-source is not installed).

2) module-assistant is not mentioned anywhere (had to google a bit to discover this, 
even though I knew it for nvidia modules).

3) the target name "vmware-server-kernel" for module-assistant is hard to remember 
(I allways try vmware-kernel and wonder why it does not work), moreover 
vmware-server-kernel is not mentioned in the list of module-assistant modules.

To fix all these, I suggest adding a sequence of example commands in the make-vmpkg 
manual with correct order. I realize that this is hard to cover all possible combinations, 
but at least one example clearifying possible dependencies and solutions would be of great 
help.

Thanks!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.9-cfs-v22 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=lt_LT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=lt_LT.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                      1.8        Gives a fake root environment
ii  file                          4.21-3     Determines file type using "magic"
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

Versions of packages vmware-package recommends:
ii  libart-2.0-2            2.3.19-3         Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0             1.20.0-1         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbz2-1.0              1.0.3-7          high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libcairo2               1.4.10-1         The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libcairomm-1.0-1        1.4.2-1          C++ wrappers for Cairo (shared lib
ii  libcroco3               0.6.1-1          a generic Cascading Style Sheet (C
ii  libexpat1               1.95.8-4         XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libfontconfig1          2.4.2-1.2        generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6            2.3.5-1+b1       FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libglade2-0             1:2.6.2-1        library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.14.0-2         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libglibmm-2.4-1c2a      2.12.10-0.1      C++ wrapper for the GLib toolkit (
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0       2.14.0-3         A powerful object-oriented display
pn  libgnomecanvasmm-2.6-1c <none>           (no description available)
ii  libgsf-1-114            1.14.7-1         Structured File Library - runtime 
ii  libgtk2.0-0             2.12.0-1         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a       1:2.10.10-0.2    C++ wrappers for GTK+ 2.4 (shared 
ii  libpango1.0-0           1.18.2-1         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0              1.2.15~beta5-2   PNG library - runtime
ii  librsvg2-2              2.18.2-1         SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libsexy2                0.1.11-2         collection of additional GTK+ widg
pn  libsexymm2              <none>           (no description available)
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a      2.0.17-2         type-safe Signal Framework for C++
pn  libssl0.9.7             <none>           (no description available)
ii  libview2                0.6.0-2          VMware's Incredibly Exciting Widge
ii  libx11-6                2:1.0.3-7        X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                 1:1.0.3-2        X11 authorisation library
ii  libxcursor1             1:1.1.9-1        X cursor management library
ii  libxdmcp6               1:1.0.2-2        X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii  libxext6                1:1.0.3-2        X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3              1:4.0.3-2        X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxft2                 2.1.12-2         FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxi6                  2:1.1.3-1        X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1            1:1.0.2-1        X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2                 2.6.30.dfsg-2    GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2              2:1.2.2-1        X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1             1:0.9.3-1        X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxtst6                2:1.0.3-1        X11 Testing -- Resource extension 
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-5 compression library - runtime

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