Open-vm-tools 12.0.5 was released on May 24, 2022. There are no new features or significant changes in the open-vm-tools 12.0.5 release. This is primarily a maintenance release that contains fixes for two potential FTBFS issues. It contains a known problem - a potential FTBFS for 32-bit architectures. A pointer to an available fix in the "devel" branch is provided in the Known Problems" section of the Release Notes. For complete details, see: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/stable-12.0.5 Release Notes are available at: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.0.5/ReleaseNotes.md The granular changes that have gone into the 12.0.5 release are in the ChangeLog at https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.0.5/open-vm-tools/ChangeLog. Please rebase open-vm-tools to release 12.0.5 on supported FreeBSD releases
A commit in branch main references this bug: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/ports/commit/?id=eb65cf5cbe543a6372834bee33243344bc40f737 commit eb65cf5cbe543a6372834bee33243344bc40f737 Author: Renato Botelho <garga@FreeBSD.org> AuthorDate: 2022-08-12 13:25:27 +0000 Commit: Renato Botelho <garga@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2022-08-12 13:28:46 +0000 emulators/open-vm-tools: Update to 12.0.5 - Update to 12.0.5 [1] - Silence checkvm_cmd [2] PR: 264241 [1], 264564 [2] Reported by: John Wolfe <jwolfe@vmware.com> [1], oz42@oz42.eu [2] Sponsored by: Rubicon Communications, LLC ("Netgate") emulators/open-vm-tools/Makefile | 3 +-- emulators/open-vm-tools/distinfo | 6 +++--- emulators/open-vm-tools/files/vmware-guestd.in | 4 ++-- 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
A commit in branch 2022Q3 references this bug: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/ports/commit/?id=8e55375b87609fef117ddd0f3e430ba512962e6c commit 8e55375b87609fef117ddd0f3e430ba512962e6c Author: Renato Botelho <garga@FreeBSD.org> AuthorDate: 2022-08-12 13:25:27 +0000 Commit: Renato Botelho <garga@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2022-08-24 12:43:10 +0000 emulators/open-vm-tools: Update to 12.0.5 - Update to 12.0.5 [1] - Silence checkvm_cmd [2] PR: 264241 [1], 264564 [2] Reported by: John Wolfe <jwolfe@vmware.com> [1], oz42@oz42.eu [2] Sponsored by: Rubicon Communications, LLC ("Netgate") (cherry picked from commit eb65cf5cbe543a6372834bee33243344bc40f737) emulators/open-vm-tools/Makefile | 2 +- emulators/open-vm-tools/distinfo | 6 +++--- emulators/open-vm-tools/files/vmware-guestd.in | 4 ++-- 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
The patch in commit eb65cf5cbe543a6372834bee33243344bc40f737 to "silence checkvm_cmd" is incorrect. This line: checkvm_cmd="%%PREFIX%%/bin/vmware-checkvm > /dev/null 2>&1" does not cause stdout and stderr redirection, it simply passes the three extra tokens to the vmware-checkvm command in argv. The correct solution is to define checkvm_cmd as a function: checkvm_cmd() { %%PREFIX%%/bin/vmware-checkvm > /dev/null 2>&1 } This error causes our puppet manifests to break because the extraneous output from `service vmware-guestd rcvar` causes puppet's FreeBSD "service" resource provider to barf.
NB: changing this to a function does of course require changing later uses of ${checkvm_cmd} to the bare word checkvm_cmd instead.
I've submitted this as a new bug ID #264241
I did of course mean #266694