Added new 5.5.1 version, which I have tested on a 32-bit VM. It should work for 64-bit, also, but I have been unable to test it. Removing 5.0.0 version, since we no longer have that version in portage and 5.5.1 is a free upgrade for all 5.x users.

(Portage version: 2.1_rc4-r3)
 (Signed Manifest commit)

3 files changed, 34 insertions, 166 deletions

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diff --git a/app-emulation/vmware-workstation-tools/files/digest-vmware-workstation-tools-5.0.0 b/app-emulation/vmware-workstation-tools/files/digest-vmware-workstation-tools-5.0.0
deleted file mode 100644
index 8b137891791f..000000000000
--- a/app-emulation/vmware-workstation-tools/files/digest-vmware-workstation-tools-5.0.0
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-
diff --git a/app-emulation/vmware-workstation-tools/vmware-workstation-tools-5.0.0.ebuild b/app-emulation/vmware-workstation-tools/vmware-workstation-tools-5.0.0.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 589dccbf3753..000000000000
--- a/app-emulation/vmware-workstation-tools/vmware-workstation-tools-5.0.0.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,145 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2006 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/app-emulation/vmware-workstation-tools/vmware-workstation-tools-5.0.0.ebuild,v 1.5 2006/05/19 18:28:38 wolf31o2 Exp $
-
-inherit eutils
-
-DESCRIPTION="Guest-os tools for VMware Workstation"
-HOMEPAGE="http://www.vmware.com/"
-
-# the vmware-tools sources are part of the vmware virtual machine;
-# they must be installed by hand
-SRC_URI=""
-LICENSE="vmware"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~x86"
-IUSE="X"
-RESTRICT=""
-
-DEPEND=""
-RDEPEND="sys-apps/pciutils"
-
-dir=/opt/vmware/tools
-Ddir=${D}/${dir}
-#TARBALL="vmware-linux-tools.tar.gz"
-TARBALL="VMwareTools-5.0.0-13124.tar.gz"
-
-S=${WORKDIR}/vmware-tools-distrib
-
-vmware_create_initd() {
-	dodir /etc/vmware-tools/init.d
-	dodir /etc/vmware-tools/init.d/rc0.d
-	dodir /etc/vmware-tools/init.d/rc1.d
-	dodir /etc/vmware-tools/init.d/rc2.d
-	dodir /etc/vmware-tools/init.d/rc3.d
-	dodir /etc/vmware-tools/init.d/rc4.d
-	dodir /etc/vmware-tools/init.d/rc5.d
-	dodir /etc/vmware-tools/init.d/rc6.d
-
-	# This is to fix a problem where if someone merges vmware and then
-	# before configuring vmware they upgrade or re-merge the vmware
-	# package which would rmdir the /etc/vmware/init.d/rc?.d directories.
-	keepdir /etc/vmware-tools/init.d/rc{0,1,2,3,4,5,6}.d
-}
-
-vmware_run_questions() {
-	# Questions:
-	einfo "Adding answers to /etc/vmware/locations"
-	locations="${D}/etc/vmware-tools/locations"
-	echo "answer BINDIR ${dir}/bin" >> ${locations}
-	echo "answer LIBDIR ${dir}/lib" >> ${locations}
-	echo "answer MANDIR ${dir}/man" >> ${locations}
-	echo "answer DOCDIR ${dir}/doc" >> ${locations}
-	echo "answer SBINDIR ${dir}/sbin" >> ${locations}
-	echo "answer RUN_CONFIGURATOR no" >> ${locations}
-	echo "answer INITDIR /etc/vmware-tools/init.d" >> ${locations}
-	echo "answer INITSCRIPTSDIR /etc/vmware-tools/init.d" >> ${locations}
-}
-
-pkg_setup() {
-	einfo "You will need ${TARBALL} from the VMware installation."
-	einfo "Select VM->Install VMware Tools from VMware Workstation's menu."
-	cdrom_get_cds ${TARBALL}
-}
-
-src_unpack() {
-	tar xf "${CDROM_ROOT}"/"${TARBALL}"
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	dodir ${dir}/bin
-	cp -pPR bin/* ${Ddir}/bin || die
-
-	dodir ${dir}/lib
-	cp -dr lib/* ${Ddir}/lib || die
-	# Since with Gentoo we compile everthing it doesn't make sense to keep
-	# the precompiled modules arround. Saves about 4 megs of disk space too.
-	rm -rf ${Ddir}/lib/modules/binary || die
-
-	into ${dir}
-	# install the binaries
-	dosbin sbin/vmware-checkvm || die
-	dosbin sbin/vmware-guestd || die
-
-	# install the config files
-	dodir /etc/vmware-tools
-	cp -pPR etc/* ${D}/etc/vmware-tools || die
-
-	# install the init scripts
-	newinitd ${FILESDIR}/${PN}.rc vmware-tools || die
-
-	# Environment
-	doenvd ${FILESDIR}/90vmware-tools || die
-
-	# if we have X, install the default config
-	if use X ; then
-		insinto /etc/X11
-		doins ${FILESDIR}/xorg.conf
-	fi
-
-	vmware_create_initd || die
-
-	cp -pPR installer/services.sh ${D}/etc/vmware-tools/init.d/vmware-tools || die
-
-	vmware_run_questions || die
-}
-
-pkg_postinst () {
-	# This must be done after the install to get the mtimes on each file
-	# right. This perl snippet gets the /etc/vmware/locations file code:
-	# perl -e "@a = stat('bin/vmware'); print \$a[9]"
-	# The above perl line and the find line below output the same thing.
-	# I would think the find line is faster to execute.
-	# find /opt/vmware/workstation/bin/vmware -printf %T@
-
-	#Note: it's a bit weird to use ${D} in a preinst script but it should work
-	#(drobbins, 1 Feb 2002)
-
-	einfo "Generating /etc/vmware-tools/locations file."
-	d=`echo ${D} | wc -c`
-	for x in `find ${Ddir} ${D}/etc/vmware-tools` ; do
-		x="`echo ${x} | cut -c ${d}-`"
-		if [ -d ${D}/${x} ] ; then
-			echo "directory ${x}" >> ${D}/etc/vmware-tools/locations
-		else
-			echo -n "file ${x}" >> ${D}/etc/vmware-tools/locations
-			if [ "${x}" == "/etc/vmware-tools/locations" ] ; then
-				echo "" >> ${D}/etc/vmware-tools/locations
-			elif [ "${x}" == "/etc/vmware-tools/not_configured" ] ; then
-				echo "" >> ${D}/etc/vmware-tools/locations
-			else
-				echo -n " " >> ${D}/etc/vmware-tools/locations
-				#perl -e "@a = stat('${D}${x}'); print \$a[9]" >> ${D}/etc/vmware/locations
-				find ${D}${x} -printf %T@ >> ${D}/etc/vmware-tools/locations
-				echo "" >> ${D}/etc/vmware-tools/locations
-			fi
-		fi
-	done
-	einfo "To start using the vmware-tools, please run the following:"
-	einfo
-	einfo "  ${dir}/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl"
-	einfo "  rc-update add vmware-tools default"
-	einfo "  /etc/init.d/vmware-tools start"
-	einfo
-	einfo "Please report all bugs to http://bugs.gentoo.org/"
-}