Works in 5.0.8-1.
Thanks !
I.
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De: can...@free.fr
À: "Gianfranco Costamagna" <costamagnagianfra...@yahoo.it>
Cc: 800...@bugs.debian.org, "Ritesh Raj Sarraf" <r...@debian.org>
Envoyé: Lundi 5 Octobre 2015 09:52:57
Objet: Re: Bug#800077: virtualbox: Cannot install 5.0.4-dfsg-3 with just modules
Yes that is what I meant.
Thanks !
I.
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De: "Gianfranco Costamagna" <costamagnagianfra...@yahoo.it>
À: can...@free.fr, 800...@bugs.debian.org
Cc: 800...@bugs.debian.org, "Ritesh Raj Sarraf" <r...@debian.org>
Envoyé: Dimanche 4 Octobre 2015 23:13:25
Objet: Re: Bug#800077: virtualbox: Cannot install 5.0.4-dfsg-3 with just modules
Hi, do you mean changing this line from
Depends: adduser, ${misc:Depends}, ${python:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends},
virtualbox-dkms (>= ${source:Version}) | virtualbox-source (>=
${source:Version}) | virtualbox-modules (>= ${source:Version})
to
Depends: adduser, ${misc:Depends}, ${python:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends},
virtualbox-dkms (>= ${source:Version}) | virtualbox-source (>=
${source:Version}) | virtualbox-modules
seems legit to me,
cheers,
G.
Il Domenica 4 Ottobre 2015 12:03, "can...@free.fr" <can...@free.fr> ha scritto:
Hi again,
Sorry, I should have thought about it earlier but only realised it when I still
couldn't upgrade without the sources : Debian does not allow versioned
dependencies on virtual package names. In other words, if you put any version
requirement on virtualbox-modules it will only accept a package actually named
virtualbox-modules with an appropriate version, a "provides" will not be
accepted.
Will you find it acceptable to remove the version constraints from the
"virtualbox-modules" dependency ? I think this would not change much from your
point of view - a user who is competent enough to compile and install separate
module packages would know what to do if virtualbox complains the installed
modules are for an older version, no ?
Cheers,
I.
----- Mail original -----
De: "Gianfranco Costamagna" <costamagnagianfra...@yahoo.it>
À: can...@free.fr
Cc: 800...@bugs.debian.org, "Ritesh Raj Sarraf" <r...@debian.org>
Envoyé: Lundi 28 Septembre 2015 09:00:13
Objet: Re: Bug#800077: virtualbox: Cannot install 5.0.4-dfsg-3 with just modules
Hi
>Thanks, but I beg to disagree : you need
>
>virtualbox-dkms OR virtualbox-source ** OR virtualbox-modules **
>
>I compile modules on one machine and use them on several others. Why force
>me to install the module sources, kernel headers, and all the rest if I
>already have the compiled modules ?
sure, this is a perfectly valid use-case :)
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-virtualbox/virtualbox.git/commit/?id=41a45bc76907ad2921e4ad50fc6c1b8fba45fad4
committed, on git, can you please tell me if it works for you?
I also changed the dependency to >= instead of =, because the kernel modules
should work even if from
other virtualbox versions.
(I'm specially thinking about getting a new dkms and keep an old virtualbox,
just because the kernel has been upgraded)
@Ritesh, how do you feel about that commit?
cheers,
Gianfranco
