[SOLVED] open-vm-tools-modules out of date

Question

open-vm-tools-modules has been flagged out-of-date today because it requires < 3.3 kernel.
This is stopping me from updating to 3.3-ARCH.
Can anyone advise what it would take to update this? If it's complicated, how long would it normally be before it is updated by the maintainer?
Thanks in advance.
--Ja'far
Last edited by jr0 (2012-04-08 21:53:51)

Answer 1

The NEWS file in ~/abs/open-vm-tools-modules/.../src/ said
Targets (1): open-vm-tools-modules-2012.03.13-1
open-vm-tools 2012.03.13 changes:
        * Updates for newer Linux kernel releases (3.3).
so I thought it was worth risking removing the requires <3.3 from PKGBUILD, like so (I didn't mean to comment the second "depends=" line):
package() {
_kernver=`pacman -Q linux | cut -d . -f 2 | cut -f 1 -d -`
# depends=("linux>=3.${_kernver}" "linux<3.`expr ${_kernver} + 1`")
# depends=("linux>=3.${_kernver}")
KERNEL_VERSION=`cat /lib/modules/extramodules-3.${_kernver}-ARCH/version`
msg "Kernel = $KERNEL_VERSION"
Seems to be working, so marking SOLVED.