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I reconsidered about deps.

libxcrypt-compat and AUR/libxerces-c-3.2 is needed if bundled libs are avoided.

libgoogleurl.so.59 only depends on icu60 (patchelf --replace-needed is not enough).

Source from URL is possible. But it is dirty: https://dp-downloads.broadcom.com/?file=VMware-ovftool-4.6.3-24031167-lin.x86_64.zip&oid=263583&id=Z4nDHRlPJiBIO8AvxqtBQW3rbqxL4n8kRJo3vOMk-4vQqTgHiJidPC77i2KtjX4=&specDownload=true&verify=1745736290-7LWiHY1AZvW7%2BNrN4p%2B%2FSMdKzhS4bjWi%2BCdU4%2BXsF%2Fg%3D

Since currently the source file must be manually downloaded, what if we consider binaries here? https://github.com/rgl/ovftool-binaries

out of date.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?