Lately I’ve been playing around with the VMWare vSphere SDK for
Perl, since the
new job uses a bunch of VMWare stuff (and I’ve been starting my foray
into Perl as a new language, and am amazed by the massive
number of modules out there). As much as I find
yum limiting having used
zypper on OpenSuSE, I’m not
much of a fan of non-natively-packaged software. Not only is it more
difficult to maintain and upgrade a system and nearly impossible to
nicely automate when building from source (or a proprietary installer
script), it’s also much more difficult to transition from a development
environment to production.
In a quick search, I found a perfectly working spec file and some
RHEL/Cent-specific patches (and even beginner-level rpmbuild
instructions) for the current 5.0.0-422456 VMWare CLI and Perl SDK for
x86_64 at
http://www.firetooth.net/confluence/display/public/vSphere+Perl+SDK+and+CLI+RPM+Packages.
Many thanks to Vaughan
Whitteron of NSW in Australia
for posting this! It built and installed without any problems on my
Fedora 16 desktop, and a CentOS 6.2 development box.
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