open-vm-tools v10 ?
VMware Tools v10.0.0 has been released.
Will there (soon) also be an open-vm-tools v10 rpm for RHEL7 too? I see that currently v9.x is still available (also in beta).
Thanks.
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Well, that is an interesting question. As far as I know there are no releases of new package major versions in a Red Hat major release. If this is true there won't be an open-vm-tools package in version 10 in RHEL7. The package stays at version 9.x.
But maybe there are backports to the package for security or bugfixing reasons.
I'm pretty new to RHEL, so there is a chance that I'm wrong on this.
Kind regards, Joerg
Joerg is generally correct, but it depends on the particular package. Some packages can be rebased without breaking API/ABI and some cannot.
open-vm-tools is being rebased to upstream v10 in RHEL 7.3, the release target is currently Q4 2016.
For your reference, this is being done under Red Hat Private Bug 1268537.
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