Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH] v2v: linux: do not uninstall open-vm-tools w/ ubuntu-server
On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 06:00:08PM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote:
On Wednesday, 27 February 2019 17:57:08 CET Pino Toscano wrote:
> ubuntu-server depends on open-vm-tools on Ubuntu, so if v2v tries to
> uninstall open-vm-tools then dpkg will (rightfully) fail with a
> dependency issue.
>
> Since open-vm-tools is harmless after the conversion anyway (it will
> not even run), then do not attempt to uninstall it if ubuntu-server is
> installed too.
>
> Followup of commit 2bebacf8bf611f0f80a66915f78653ce30b38129.
> ---
Forgot to append after this:
Thanks to: Ming Xie.
(already in my local copy)
Patch looks sensible, ACK.
Rich.
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