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Description of problem:

This is a request to rebase open-vm-tools to 11.0.5 for rhel-8.2.1, the app stream update. 

open-vm-tools 11.0.5 was released 14 Jan 2020 and contains a number of valuable bug fixes.

List of changes is available here:
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/compare/stable-11.0.0...stable-11.0.5

Here is a list of 11.0.5 bugs that are relevant to open-vm-tools:
2348907 - DNS issue
1812625 - Configurable env for /tmp noexec mount issue
2176701  - Trailing space causes unexpected config in tools.conf
2302591  - DNS server changes not being updated in VC
2413909  - Coverity fixes
2418201  - Coverity fixes
2433449  - udev rules warning fix
2446298  - Crash on ZFS file system (https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/378)
2470850 - Crash due to certain lsb_release outputs. It was a regression in 11.0.0 (https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/390).

Following fixes are also there in 11.0.5 (these are fixes for the regressions introduced in 11.0.5 itself):
2391651  - DNS servers crash fix introduced by fix for PR 2302591
2457949  - Regression caused by PR 2413909

Can you please also include this patch with the rebase?
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/commits/stable-11.0.5-appinfo

thanks,
John

(In reply to John Savanyo from comment #1)
> Can you please also include this patch with the rebase?
> https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/commits/stable-11.0.5-appinfo
> 
> thanks,
> John

Please refer to Bug 1809751 - [ESXi][RHEL8.2.1]open-vm-tools add appinfo plugin patch

*** Bug 1806682 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Run regression test for build open-vm-tools-11.0.5-1.el8 with RHEL-8.2.1-20200622.n.0，no regression issue found, also verify the new feature appinfo, all test cases passed.
Change status to verified.

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-2020:3049