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Bug 1757761

Summary: vmware-guestproxycerttool removed from open-vm-tools
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Miroslav Rezanina <mrezanin>
Component: open-vm-toolsAssignee: Miroslav Rezanina <mrezanin>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: ldu <ldu>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: high    
Version: 8.2CC: cavery, jen, jjarvis, jsavanyo, knoel, ldu, leiwang, ravindrakumar, ribarry
Target Milestone: rcFlags: knoel: mirror+
Target Release: 8.2   
Hardware: Unspecified   
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Fixed In Version: open-vm-tools-11.0.0-1.el8 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed: 2020-04-28 15:34:07 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Miroslav Rezanina 2019-10-02 11:43:20 UTC
During rebase to 11.0.0, removal of the vmware-guestproxycerttool was revealed (commit 49eb56393). We are using this tool in our scripts and package it in rpm. 

I do not know reason for this and not sure how to handle this change.

Comment 1 Ravindra Kumar 2019-10-02 13:35:09 UTC
This tool and whatever it does is no longer required. The tool and its usage can be safely removed.

I will be updating Fedora packages soon and that would make it further clear.

Comment 3 Ravindra Kumar 2019-10-10 02:12:57 UTC
(In reply to Ravindra Kumar from comment #2)
> FYI, here are the 2 rebase changes for Fedora:
> -
> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/open-vm-tools/c/
> 5d8b42b679fdc9ef6d204f6e0f6bc1a32a636663?branch=master
> -
> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/open-vm-tools/c/
> 0eea930ecef9d6a4d7a2bc927e69f50bd202ee5a?branch=master

Sorry, I missed one cleanup change needed for upgrade case - https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/open-vm-tools/c/0635f2f8cd72cfd0459209ed0714fefcbb549e31?branch=master.

Comment 5 Miroslav Rezanina 2019-10-14 17:21:55 UTC
Version 11.0.0 do not use this tool so we build packages without it.

Comment 8 ldu 2019-12-16 02:32:47 UTC
verified on open-vm-tools-11.0.0-2.el8.x86_64.rpm , the vmware-guestproxycerttool had removed.
[root@bootp-73-199-50 ~]# rpm -qlp open-vm-tools*.rpm |grep "/usr/bin/*"
warning: open-vm-tools-11.0.0-2.el8.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID fd431d51: NOKEY
/usr/bin/VGAuthService
/usr/bin/vm-support
/usr/bin/vmhgfs-fuse
/usr/bin/vmtoolsd
/usr/bin/vmware-checkvm
/usr/bin/vmware-hgfsclient
/usr/bin/vmware-namespace-cmd
/usr/bin/vmware-rpctool
/usr/bin/vmware-toolbox-cmd
/usr/bin/vmware-vgauth-cmd
/usr/bin/vmware-xferlogs
[root@bootp-73-199-50 ~]# 

compare to open-vm-tools-10.3.10-2.el7.x86_64.rpm, contain the vmware-guestproxycerttool.
[root@bootp-73-199-5 ~]# rpm -qlp open-vm-tools*.rpm |grep "/usr/bin/*"
warning: open-vm-tools-10.3.10-2.el7.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID fd431d51: NOKEY
/usr/bin/VGAuthService
/usr/bin/vm-support
/usr/bin/vmhgfs-fuse
/usr/bin/vmtoolsd
/usr/bin/vmware-checkvm
/usr/bin/vmware-guestproxycerttool
/usr/bin/vmware-hgfsclient
/usr/bin/vmware-namespace-cmd
/usr/bin/vmware-rpctool
/usr/bin/vmware-toolbox-cmd
/usr/bin/vmware-vgauth-cmd
/usr/bin/vmware-xferlogs
[root@bootp-73-199-5 ~]# 

so bug change status to verified.

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2020-04-28 15:34:07 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2020:1588