[OM Cooker] In 3.0 possible dependency issue with VirtualBox?

Bernhard Rosenkraenzer bero at lindev.ch
Sun Jun 26 05:18:15 EDT 2016


Hi,

On 2016-06-25 20:59, Ben Bullard wrote:

> found package(s): virtualbox-5.0.22-1-omv2015.0.x86_64 
> virtualbox-5.0.20-1-omv2015.0.x86_64

Minor problem there: looks like abf is "forgetting" once again to remove 
old versions.
But that doesn't matter, urpmi selects 5.0.22 anyway.

> Is this going to work? Shouldn't it also be pulling:
> 
> dkms                           2.2.0.3.1    3.20130827.13 omv   2015.0 
> noarch
> dkms-virtualbox                5.0.22       1             omv   2015.0 
> x86_64
> patch                          2.7.5        2             omv   2015.0 
> x86_64

Not anymore.

The modules are now provided in the kernel-release package.
I moved them into the kernel package because:
1. With the guest-side VirtualBox modules we finally have plymouth 
working in vbox
2. Drops the need for non-developers to have compilers and all installed
3. Slow bootup after kernel updates from rebuilding the modules, 
potentially causing hard to read errors

We still provide the dkms-virtualbox package for people building their 
own kernels, but it's no longer required for people using our kernels.
(Currently this is only in kernel-release, will add it to the next build 
of kernel-rc as well)

ttyl
bero



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