[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#451743: postinst unconditionally attempts to modprobe vboxdrv

[Daniel Baumann]

Kel Modderman wrote:
> The following code in kernel module binary package derived from this package 
> should be removed or made smarter:

actually, as you know, modules packages shall not load modules at all;
but i didn't get arround to tell michael yet.

> case "${1}" in
> 	configure)
> 		modprobe vboxdrv || true
> 		invoke-rc.d udev reload
> 
> IMHO, the loading of vboxdrv should be tied in with application runtime. If 
> this "moprobe on install" semantic must persist, it should at least check 
> running kernel version before attempting to call modprobe.

as vbox is called through a wrapper anyway, it should be pretty easy to
check it there.

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