Update docs, add gentoo packaging.

README.md

@@ -32,18 +32,20 @@ activity logging, and some other minor improvements.
 Kevan's fork was re-forked by EMC Isilon to address bugs as we began using
 it heavily in our environment once more.
 
+EMC's fork was integrated into Kevan's repo, which was eventually handed
+off to Paul B. Henson (https://github.com/pbhenson) to maintain.
+
 # Requirements
 
 Python 2.5 or better is required, due to use of the 'with' statement and
-other syntax that was introduced in Python 2.5. It's being developed against
-Python 2.6, however, since that's the currently-shipping version for
-RHEL/CentOS 6.
+other syntax that was introduced in Python 2.5. Upstream development
+is currently under Gentoo Linux with python 2.7.
 
 Due to the use of epoll in the server implementation, Linux is required.
 There may be other issues associated with using vSPC.py on other OSs, as
 large parts of vSPC.py were only developed & tested on Linux.
 
-VMWare ESXi 4.1 through 5.5 are supported.
+vSPC has been deployed on VMWare ESXi 4.1 through 6.7.
 
 # Configuring VMs to connect to the concentrator
 
@@ -153,3 +155,4 @@ rpmbuild -ta vSPC-<version>.tar.gz
 - Dave Johnson (fixes for missing getopt modules and missing shelf.sync() calls)
 - Fabien Wernli (add options to configure listen interface, fix broken -f option, packaging improvements)
 - Casey Peel (simplified backend argument parsing, fix connection leaks, and improved logging performance)
+- Paul B. Henson (minor fixes and maintenance)

contrib/gentoo/vspc-0.6.ebuild

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+
+EAPI=5
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 )
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="A VMware virtual serial port concentrator written in python"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/pbhenson/vSPC.py"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/pbhenson/vSPC.py/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="BSD-2"
+SLOT="0"
+IUSE=""
+KEYWORDS="amd64"
+
+DEPEND="dev-python/setuptools"
+RDEPEND=""
+
+src_unpack() {
+	unpack ${A}
+	mv vSPC.py-* ${P} || die
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	distutils-r1_src_install
+
+	newinitd contrib/gentoo/vspc-init vspc
+	newconfd contrib/gentoo/vspc-conf vspc
+}

contrib/gentoo/vspc-conf

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# Config file for vspc
+
+# enable SSL
+VSPC_SSL="--ssl --cert=/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem"
+
+# chose a different backend
+VSPC_BACKEND="--backend Logging -l /var/log/consoles -m 0644"
+
+VSPC_OPTS="--no-vm-port $VSPC_SSL $VSPC_BACKEND"

contrib/gentoo/vspc-init

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+#!/sbin/openrc-run
+
+extra_started_commands="reload"
+
+depend() {
+	need net
+}
+
+start() {
+	ebegin "Starting vSPC.py Virtual Serial Port Concentrator"
+	local pidfile=/var/run/vspc/vspc.pid
+	mkdir -p "$(dirname ${pidfile})"
+	start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile=${pidfile} \
+		--exec /usr/bin/vSPCServer -- --pidfile=${pidfile} $VSPC_OPTS
+	eend $?
+}
+
+reload() {
+	ebegin "Reloading vSPC.py Virtual Serial Port Concentrator"
+	local pidfile=/var/run/vspc/vspc.pid
+	kill -HUP $(cat ${pidfile})
+	eend $?
+}
+
+stop() {
+	local pidfile=/var/run/vspc/vspc.pid
+	ebegin "Shutting down vSPC.py Virtual Serial Port Concentrator"
+	start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile=${pidfile}
+	eend $?
+}

contrib/redhat/vSPC.spec

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 %define name vSPC
-%define version 0.2
-%define unmangled_version 0.2
-%define release 2.%{dist}
+%define version 0.6
+%define unmangled_version 0.6
+%define release 6.%{dist}
 
 Summary: vSPC is a virtual Serial Port Concentrator for VMware virtual serial ports,available in ESXi 4.1+.
 Name: %{name}
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-buildroot
 Prefix: %{_prefix}
 BuildArch: noarch
 Vendor: Zach Loafman <zmerlynn@sf.net>
-Url: https://github.com/isnotajoke/vSPC.py
+Url: https://github.com/pbhenson/vSPC.py
 Requires: python26
 BuildRequires: python26
 BuildRequires: python26-distribute

setup.py

@@ -16,10 +16,12 @@ def read(fname):
                    "available in ESXi 4.1+."),
     license = "BSD",
     keywords = "ESX VMWare serial port concentrator",
-    url = "https://github.com/isnotajoke/vSPC.py",
+    url = "https://github.com/pbhenson/vSPC.py",
     package_dir = {'vSPC': 'lib'},
     scripts = [ 'vSPCClient', 'vSPCServer' ],
-    data_files = [('/etc/init.d', ['util/sysvinit/vSPCServer'])],
+    # Don't blindly install Red Hat specific files
+    # Python-fu welcomed to make this only run on Red Hat boxes
+    #data_files = [('/etc/init.d', ['util/sysvinit/vSPCServer'])],
     packages=['vSPC'],
     #apparently this doesn't always work need to look into this
     #long_description=read('README.md'),
@@ -29,20 +31,3 @@ def read(fname):
       "License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License",
     ],
 )
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