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out of date. Now the tools are provided via https://developer.broadcom.com/tools/open-virtualization-format-ovf-tool/latest

and the latest version is 4.6.3 in zip format and not .bundle

Thanks for the package but I get this error:

  -> Downloading VMware-ovftool-4.6.0-21452615-lin.x86_64.bundle...
curl: (3) URL rejected: Bad file:// URL
==> ERROR: Failure while downloading file://VMware-ovftool-4.6.0-21452615-lin.x86_64.bundle
    Aborting...
 -> error making: vmware-ovftool-exit status 1
 -> Failed to install the following packages. Manual intervention is required:
vmware-ovftool - exit status 1

mammo0's PKGBUILD build below works perfectly, thanks, mammo.

Hello,

I've modified the PKGBUILD to download ovftool directly from the VMWare servers. So, the user has not to download the *.bundle file manually before.

The modified PKGBUILD:

# Maintainer: Muflone http://www.muflone.com/contacts/english/

pkgname=vmware-ovftool
pkgver=4.6.0.21452615
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="VMware Open Virtualization Format tool"
arch=('x86_64')
url="https://developer.vmware.com/web/tool/ovf-tool"
license=('custom:vmware')
makedepends=('xorg-server-xvfb' 'procps-ng')
depends=('c-ares' 'expat' 'zlib' 'libxcrypt-compat')
source=("https://vdc-download.vmware.com/vmwb-repository/dcr-public/a1454db2-e9e1-4ac8-ad10-22dea876cfba/fbcbc433-0a8e-4cdb-be80-c5512e2e4163/VMware-ovftool-${pkgver%.*}-${pkgver##*.}-lin.${arch}.zip")
md5sums=('cff173e94a0661b7385a204d8d33e901')


package() {
  cd "${srcdir}/ovftool"
  # Install binaries files
  install -m 755 -d "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/${pkgname}"
  install -m 755 -t "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/${pkgname}" \
    ovftool ovftool.bin \
    libcrypto.so.1.0.2 libcurl.so.4 libgoogleurl.so.59 \
    libicudata.so.60 libicuuc.so.60 \
    libssl.so.1.0.2 libssoclient.so libxerces-c-3.2.so \
    libvim-types.so libvmacore.so libvmomi.so
  # Install data files
  install -m 644 -t "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/${pkgname}" icudt44l.dat
  for _subdir in "certs" "env" "env/en" "schemas/DMTF" "schemas/vmware"
  do
    install -m 755 -d "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/${pkgname}/${_subdir}"
    install -m 644 -t "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/${pkgname}/${_subdir}" "${_subdir}"/*.*
  done
  # Install main script symlink
  install -m 755 -d "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
  ln -s "/usr/lib/${pkgname}/ovftool" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/ovftool"
  # Install license files
  install -m 755 -d "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}"
  install -m 644 -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}" \
    "vmware.eula" "vmware-eula.rtf" "open_source_licenses.txt"
  # Install documentation files
  install -m 755 -d "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/${pkgname}"
  install -m 644 -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/${pkgname}" "README.txt"
}

@muflone maybe you can add the changes to the package. Thank you :)

@btall my comments were pending for approval as I didn't started a PR review

Hello @muflone, Sorry, but I don't see any comments on the PR.

@btall thank you for your contribution

I left you a comment in the proposed PR, could you please fix it before the merge?

Hello everyone,

While waiting for the update of this package to version 4.4.3 on AUR, you can find here the pull request containing the latest PKGBUILD. https://github.com/muflone/pkgbuilds/pull/21

Enjoy :)

Hello muflone,

Would you have a date to share with us regarding the update of this package to version 4.4.3? We look forward to hearing from you.

/usr/lib/vmware-ovftool/ovftool.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypt.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

You probably should add libxcrypt-compat as dependency.

Also the new version 4.4.3 is available under: https://customerconnect.vmware.com/downloads/get-download?downloadGroup=OVFTOOL443