Bug 1420620

Summary:	open-vm-tools should depend on perl
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Eugene Peregudov <joniknsk>
Component:	open-vm-tools	Assignee:	Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Description Eugene Peregudov 2017-02-09 05:49:09 UTC

Description of problem:
deployPkg plug-in uses /usr/bin/perl for VM customization, but open-vm-tools package does not depend on perl package.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
open-vm-tools-10.0.5-2.el7.x86_64

Actual results:
VM with minimal RHEL 7.3 guest OS and installed open-vm-tools did not customized by vCloud Director, because perl is not installed as dependency for open-vm-tools

Expected results:
VM with minimal RHEL 7.3 guest OS and installed open-vm-tools customized by vCloud Director.

Additional info:
1) cat /var/log/vmware-imc/toolsDeployPkg.log

ENTER STATE INPROGRESS

Reading cabinet file /tmp/vmware-root/46dd98e5/imc2585.tmp.

Creating directory /tmp
Creating directory /tmp/.vmware
Creating directory /tmp/.vmware/linux
Creating directory /tmp/.vmware/linux/deploy
Extracting package files.

Launching deployment /usr/bin/perl -I/tmp/.vmware/linux/deploy/scripts /tmp/.vmware/linux/deploy/scripts/Customize.pl /tmp/.vmware/linux/deploy/cust.cfg.

2) If you are using RHEL7 minimal or CentOS7 minimal, Perl must be installed for customization to function.
https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2075048

3) We need to add perl as a dependency to the package to avoid this in future.
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/56

Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2017-02-09 10:28:56 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1358108 ***